Weekend Headlines: August 31, 2013 to September 2, 2013

* Peru: Drones may be associated primarily with use for military purposes but archeologists in Peru are using them in order to help with mapmaking and the protection of digging sites.

* Argentina: Are British oil firms that recently received a twenty-year ban from operating in Argentina linked to an energy project with Chevron in that South American country?

* Latin America: The escalating tensions in Syria have reportedly worried some of the millions of people of Syrian descent residing in Latin America.

* U.S.: A group of Cuban migrants that traveled to the U.S. claimed that they were beaten and sexually abused by guards at a Bahamian detention center.

Daily Headlines: August 28, 2012

* Nicaragua: Investigators believe that eighteen people arrested and posing as fake Mexican journalists may be part of a ‘vast network of drug criminals”.

* U.S.: Will the Republican National Convention help the GOP make serious inroads into a Latino electorate that seem to mostly support President Barack Obama?

* Argentina: Mexico filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization against Argentina’s economic “protectionist measures.”

* Caribbean: According to Bahamian officials sixteen Haitian migrants who disappeared when their boat capsized are presumed to be dead.

Video Source – YouTube via Milenio

Online Sources- The Guardian, Fox News Latino, Politico.com, Reuters, MSNBC

Daily Headlines: March 11, 2008

* iPhones could be coming soon to the Latin American market according to this article.

* Ex-Roman Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo is the frontrunner for Paraguay’s presidential elections which will take place next month.

* Haiti’s government is taking steps to limit emigration to the Bahamas.

* Environmental problems are the central topic of a unique conference of indigenous peoples in southern Mexico.

Sources- Bloomberg, UPI, MSNBC, PRESS TV

Image- MSNBC