Friday, March 21, 2014

Daily Headlines: March 21, 2014


* Uruguay: President Jose Mujica said that Uruguay would be willing to take in five detainees of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba though no definitive agreement has been reached.

* Dominican Republic: Dominican officials are reportedly working “urgently” on a nationalization bill that could help some of the thousands of residents of Haitian background whose citizenship was stripped in a controversial high court ruling.
 
* U.S.: The National Hispanic University, which is the only Latino-oriented four year college in the U.S., will be shutdown next year due to “significant ongoing regulatory and financial challenges.”

* Mexico: Hipolito Mora, the leader of one of the “self-defense” vigilante groups in Michoacán, will face trial over his suspected involvement in the murders of two men.

Video Source – NTN24 via YouTube

Online Sources- Fox News Latino; Dominican Today; The Latin Americanist; GlobalPost; LAHT

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