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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Daily Headlines: November 21, 2012 (Updated)
* Puerto Rico: Former world boxing champion Hector “Macho” Camacho remains in critical condition and is reportedly struggling to survive after he was shot last night.
Update (November 22): Hector “Macho” Camacho is brain dead and close to death according to doctors overseeing the critically injured former pugilist.
"We have done everything we could,"said Dr. Ernesto Torres of the Centro Medico trauma center in San Juan to the press on Thursday morning.
He added that Camacho's family will decide by Friday whether to take the former three-time title holder off of life support machines.
* Venezuela: The Venezuelan economy grew by over five percent in the third quarter but manufacturing has supposedly hit a fifty-year low.
* Argentina: Buenos Aires and other major cities were paralyzed yesterday after Argentina's main labor unions declared a general strike.
* Honduras: Could Xiomara Castro, the wife of ousted ex-president Manuel Zelaya, win next year's Honduran presidential election?
Video Source: YouTube via Associated Press
Online Sources including Update: Globalpost, ABC News, BBC News, Fox News Latino, Reuters, Huffington Post
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