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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Daily Headlines: February 13, 2013
* Colombia: Peace talks between the Colombian government and the FARC are allegedly going well despite a guerilla military offensive.
* Peru: Archeologists located a 5000-year-old temple in a Peruvian valley that could be among the oldest sites in the world.
* Venezuela: The U.S. State Department issued sanctions against a Venezuelan state-owned weapons firm for it’s dealings with Iran, North Korea or Syria.
* Paraguay: The head of the Paraguayan national electricity agency warned that the country’s energy system is on the verge of collapse.
Video Source – YouTube via Al Jazeera English (The FARC ended a weeks-long unilateral ceasefire on January 20th).
Online Sources- GlobalPost, Reuters, Businessweek, inforsurhoy.com
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