Note: We will be posting several articles during the next month on the World Cup in Brazil. As a result, our “Daily Headlines” entries over the next few weeks will focus primarily on non-World Cup news.
* Colombia: Conservative president Juan Manuel Santos turned around a first round loss and won reelection as most Colombian voters opted to continue the current direction of peace talks with leftist rebels.
* South America: Diplomatic tensions between Argentina and Uruguay have flared up again over a Finnish-owned pulp mill built in 2007 near the border of both countries.
* Mexico: Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission condemned the attacks on five journalists covering a recent march remembering the victims of the 1971 El Halconazo massacre.
* U.S.: Escaping from gang violence and poor economic conditions are some of the reasons behind the influx of thousands of unaccompanied minors mostly from Central American countries crossing into the U.S.
Video Source – euronews via YouTube
Online Sources – MercoPress; LAHT; The Latin Americanist; CNN; Reuters
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