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Thursday, February 13, 2014
Daily Headlines: February 13, 2014
* Mexico: Members of the media in the Mexican state of Veracruz decried the recent murder of journalist Gregorio Jiménez and expressed doubt that he was killed due to a personal vendetta.
* Haiti: The Haitian government has launched a new program aimed at providing documentation to expats including the tens of thousands whose citizenship was controversially stripped in the neighboring Dominican Republic.
* Honduras: A report from Human Rights Watch blasted Honduran authorities for failing to properly investigate the deaths of scores of people due to land disputes.
* Argentina: Reports of Buenos Aires officials ordering a cruise ship to lower down its British flag has become the latest point of tension in the diplomatic relations between the U.K. and Argentina.
Video Source – YouTube user CadenaTres
Online Sources- Global Voices Online; Washington Post; The Latin Americanist; Los Angeles Times; The Guardian
Question - why didn't the protests in Venezuela make this list?
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