Daily Headlines: March 2, 2010

* Colombia: President Alvaro Uribe’s delusions of a third straight term may be dead yet one of his chief supporters is the favorite to succeed him.

* U.S.: Will the White House’s promise of an extra $900 million in school improvement funds stem the “dropout crisis” among Latino students?

* Guatemala: At an annual coffee producers’ conference in Guatemala City exporting countries claimed that climate change has seriously hurt coffee growers.

* Mexico: Police arrested a third suspect allegedly linked to the February murders of fifteen teens in Ciudad Juarez.

Image – CNN (A recent poll found that nearly one in four respondents back former Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos as the successor to President Alvaro Uribe.)
Online Sources- The Latin Americanist, CNN, Economic Times, Bloomberg, Christian Science Monitor,