Daily Headlines: September 18, 2012

* Chile: Scientists released photos taken from the world's most powerful digital camera, which is sitting on a mountaintop in Chile.

* Bolivia: A U.N. report released days after Bolivia was placed on a White House drug trafficking "black list" found that coca production in the Andean country dropped by 12% in 2011.

* Brazil: Finance Minister Guido Mantega criticized the latest round of U.S. monetary alleging, “the depreciation of the dollar will cause lots of problems for emerging nations.”

* Mexico: Authorities are searching for over 130 inmates who escaped from a prison in the northern Coahuila state.

Video Source – YouTube via Fermilab

Online Sources- Wired.com, ABC News, Reuters, Businessweek, USA TODAY

Daily Headlines: April 28, 2009

* Venezuela: Maracaibo mayor and key opposition figure Manuel Rosales was granted political asylum in Peru days after he left Venezuela.

* Latin America: “A senior IMF official” said last week that Latin America should be able to rebound well from the global economic crisis once it ends.

* Brazil: Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega called on developed countries to “clean up their financial system(s)” in order to overcome the weakened worldwide economy.

* Puerto Rico: Over the weekend, hackers disrupted a number of local web sites for mega-companies like Google, Microsoft, and Coca-Cola.

Image- daylife.com (“Picture taken on March 25, 2009 of Venezuela's top opposition leader Manuel Rosales during a press conference organized by opposition governors and mayors to claim their pacific resistance against President Hugo Chavez, in Caracas.”)
Online Sources- The Latin Americanist, BBC News, Reuters, CNET News