* Brazil: O Estado de Sao Paulo reporter Andrei Netto was freed from a Libyan prison last week after being detained for approximately five days.* Guatemala: Jorge Sosa may be under custody but that hasn’t deterred U.S. and Canadian authorities from “closing in” other ex-Guatemalan military members who participated in 1982’s Dos Erres Massacre.
* Haiti: Five candidates who lost in the first round of Haiti's presidential election have backed Michel Martelly in the March 20th runoff.
* Ecuador: Attorneys representing Chevron filed an appeal against an Ecuadorian court verdict last month that ordered the company to pay a $9.5 billion fine.
Image – AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere via wtop.com (Brazilian journalist Andrei Netto addresses reporters, during an interview with the Associated Press in Paris, Saturday March 12, 2011.”)
Online Sources- HaitiLibre.com, Reuters, The Canadian Press, France24, The Latin Americanist
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