* Ecuador: In the latest development in Ecuador’s lawsuit against Chevron, lawyers for the oil giant have requested the dismissal of an international arbitration board.* Panama: Two of president Ricardo Martinelli’s bodyguards where among those arrested over an alleged kidnapping plot against Martinelli.
* Cuba: According to a leading Cuban dissident group the human rights situation on the island is not expected to improve this year.
* Brazil: The country ‘s Bovespa index fell the most in two months yesterday partly due to Chinese credit restructuring.
Image – Salon (Still taken from “Crude”, a documentary examining Ecuador environmental damage lawsuit against Chevron).
Online Sources -The Latin Americanist, Bloomberg, AHN, LAHT
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