Daily Headlines: March 15, 2010

* Chile: Parts of Chile continue to be without electricity after a massive blackout on Sunday night plunged most of the country into darkness. (Update: Electricity is expected to be restored to all of Chile by today. Yet as the video above shows, Chileans had their nerves tested by the blackout that occurred weeks after a deadly major tremor).

* U.S.: If the Republican Party wants to appeal to Latino voters then they should lay off the staunch anti-immigration rhetoric such as “(reviving) the thrust of Proposition 187” in California.

* Venezuela: Officials claimed that police seized over two tons of cocaine originally bound for Europe.

* Argentina: Did the Vatican help the late Nazi Adolf Eichmann flee Germany for Argentina?

Image – Reuters (“A man rides his bike along a street during a blackout in Santiago, March 14, 2010.”)
Online Sources- UPI, MSNBC, The Latin Americanist, San Francisco Gate, The Telegraph