* Puerto Rico: Vigils were held over the weekend in New York, San Fransisco, and other parts of the U.S. in memory of a gay Puerto Rican teen recently murdered in a homophobic attack.* Argentina: The country’s legislature overwhelmingly backed a proposal that would permit obligatory extraction of DNA from “Dirty War” orphans.
* Cuba: A former State Department official and his wife pled guilty in a U.S. federal court to charges of spying for the Cuban government.
* Brazil: Renowned Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer has reportedly returned to work over a month after being hospitalized for surgery and only weeks before his 102nd birthday.
Image – CNN (“Police say the body of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, 19, had been decapitated, dismembered and partially burned.”)
Online Sources- examiner.com, AP, BBC News, MSNBC, The Latin Americanist, WPIX
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