* U.S.: With Cesar Chavez Day being celebrated in a handful of states this week, it’s worth noting that there are preliminary plans for a Hollywood film on the late civil rights and labor activist.* Honduras: March has been a bleak month for Honduran journalists with at least five members of the media having been murdered.
* Chile: “There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries” after a 6.1 magnitude aftershock shook Chile over the weekend.
* U.S.: In testimony at the Marcelo Lucero murder trial yesterday one of the seven teens accused of participating in his death described how he and his cohorts spent that fateful November 2008 night going “beaner hopping.”
Image – Los Angeles Daily News (“Hundreds turn out during the 17th Annual Cesar E. Chavez March for Justice and Cultural Arts Festival that started with a rally at Brand Park in Mission Hills and ended at Ritchie Valens Park in Pacoima CA. March 28,2010.”)
Online Sources- Reuters, BusinessWeek, Herald Sun, The Latin Americanist, New York Times
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