Daily Headlines: November 16, 2009

* Puerto Rico: The U.S. government reversed a decision made in 2003 and concluded that military exercises on the island of Vieques may have posed health risks to residents.

* Mexico: Days after business groups in Ciudad Juarez were reported to seek help from the U.N. at least fifteen people were murdered in that city on Saturday alone.

* Panama: Construction on the third set of locks for the Panama Canal will begin in January 2010.

* U.S.: Lawmakers in Illinois are debating the possibility that detainees from the Guantanamo prison will be transferred to a state jail 150 miles away from Chicago.

Image – New York Daily News (“Disabled and non-live artillery and mortar shells are piled high in the former U.S. Naval Training Range on Vieques, Puerto Rico, in 2007.")
Online Sources- New York Times, LAHT, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera English, UPI