Daily Headlines: July 27, 2012

* Puerto Rico: Univision apologized yesterday after accidentally running an ad congratulating Puerto Rico’s "independence". (The corrected ad is seen above).

* Venezuela: The U.N. blasted the Venezuelan government’s move to withdraw from two regional human rights courts.

* Cuba: A State Department spokesman said that the U.S. would not negotiate with the Cuban government unless several conditions are met.

* Argentina: The image of former first lady Evita Peron will appear on 100 peso notes to mark the 60th anniversary of her premature death.

Video Source – YouTube via brightspeak

Online Sources- Huffington Post, Fox News Latino, The Australian, Bernama

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* Last week: Cambridge mathematicians conclude that actress Jessica Alba has the “ultimate sexy strut.”

This week: “they’ve already decided what the result is, beforehand.”

(Hat tip: Guanabee, Fark.com).

* Hurricane Dean may be the deciding factor in today’s general elections in Jamaica.

* Argentine president Nestor Kirchner suffered a setback when voters of Santa Fe province elected an opposition politician for governor.

* A Chilean Catholic priest was charged with having covered up the deaths of 28 dissidents during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.

* An exhibition of over 600 images of Eva Peron at Argentina's Institute for Cinema and Audiovisual Arts has been both praised and criticized.

Sources- Guanabee, Fark.com, The Telegraph, badscience.net, MSNBC, Guardian UK, BBC News

Image- E! Online

Argie first lady isn’t Evita, but what about Hillary?

Argentine first lady and presidential candidate Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has tried to reject any comparisons between her and Evita Peron. “I don't want to inherit anything from Eva or from (husband Nestor) Kirchner. All that I have done has been through my own achievements and even my own mistakes,” said Cristina on Tuesday during a campaign tour in Spain.

There has been a crescendo of comparisons between the current senator and Evita and U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton. Some commentators doubt the links between Christina and Hillary, though this recent clip from Argentine television looks at several possible similarities in their campaigns (video link):

Sources- International Herald Tribune, MSNBC, Telegraph.co.uk, MSNBC, Slate, YouTube