* Rest in peace Tito Gomez (image); the fifty-nine-year-old Puerto Rican was the lead singer of famed Colombian salseros Grupo Niche. * The U.S. government is “not supporting, participating in, pushing for or subliminally urging any of the people that march” in favor of RCTV, claimed the U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela yesterday.
* El Salvador’s government confirmed that two army units stationed in Iraq came under insurgent fire, while nineteen Mexican soldiers will go on trial for the murders of five civilians who did not halt at an army checkpoint.
* Jamaican police believe that Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer was not murdered and instead died of natural causes.
* Ecuador’s president defended his economics minister who was caught in a second secret videotape, while ex-Nicaraguan president Arnoldo Aleman refused a planned amnesty for his money laundering conviction.
* Follow-up: Remember in October when we mentioned the rumors surrounding President Bush’s purchase of 100,000 acres of land in Paraguay? Now speculation is running over the purchase of millions of acres of land in Chile and Argentina by U.S. multimillionaire Douglas Tompkins.
Sources (Spanish)- El Diario/La Prensa
Sources (English)- ABCmoney.co.uk, MSNBC, Monsters & Critics, BBC News, People’s Daily Online, The Latin Americanist, Yahoo! News
Image- RPP
