Thursday, March 18, 2010

Daily Headlines: March 18, 2010

* Cuba: Cuban police have been accused of heavy-handedness and repression after breaking up a peaceful protest yesterday by the Ladies in White.

* Mexico: According to the FBI the recent killings of three people connected to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez may have been a case of mistaken identity.

* Latin America: Agriculture ministers from thirteen countries are meeting in Ecuador in order to figure out how to eliminate malnutrition and hunger.

* Peru: The country’s justice minister was let go from his post over alleged irregularities in the 2009 pardoning of a former TV executive.

Image – Al Jazzeera English (“The wives and mothers of political prisoners marched (as the Ladies in White) to demand that they be freed.”)
Online Sources- The Latin Americanist, The Independent, Miami Herald, Living in Peru, People’s Daily Online

2 comments:

  1. will be happy, if you post daily headlines about new technology news and tech news that is happening in latin america.

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  2. Thanks for your suggestion.

    We try to touch as many topics as possible though some issues (entertainment and business for instance) sometimes fall between the cracks. We'll do our best to discuss a broad range of interests on this site. Thanks for your concern!

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