Daily Headlines: March 10, 2015

* Colombia: Several thousand people in Colombia and in foreign cities participated in peace marches one day after the government and FARC rebels agreed to a landmine removal program.

* Puerto Rico: “I did not come here to put a Band-Aid on the problem,” declared Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla in a televised speech defending his controversial tax reform plan.

* Haiti: Haitian authorities reportedly pledged to increase security near Dominican consulates amid heightened political and social tensions between the neighboring countries.

* Argentina: The Argentine government called on HSBC to repatriate $3.5 billion in funds placed in offshore accounts by alleged tax evaders.

Video Source – YouTube via teleSUR English

Online Sources – VOXXI; Reuters; CCTV Americas

Daily Headlines: March 19, 2013

* Mexico: A new academic study concluded that at least 253,000 guns are smuggled into Mexico from the U.S. every year as part of a multimillion dollar industry.

* Caribbean: Two long-time baseball rivals, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, will face off tonight in the World Baseball Classic championship game.

* Venezuela: Interim President Nicolás Maduro has a fourteen-point lead ahead of opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles according to poll conducted after the death of President Hugo Chavez.

* Argentina: Authorities in Argentina filed criminal charges including tax evasion and money laundering against banking giant HSBC.

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Daily Headlines: July 26, 2012

* Dominican Republic: The debate over abortion has heated up after a ban on the practice has prevented a pregnant eighteen-year-old girl dying of acute leukemia from receiving chemotherapy.

* Mexico: Mexican regulators levied a $27.5 million fine against the local subsidiary of HSBC after the bank failed to prevent money laundering.

* Colombia: Venezuelan authorities extradited to Colombia Diego Perez Henao, the suspected leader of a neo-paramilitary group known as “Los Rastrojos.”

* U.S.: Mourners in Texas prayed in memory of fifteen immigrants, including nationals from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, who died in a car crash on Sunday.

Video Source – CNN

Online Sources- CNN, Businessweek, GlobalPost, Houston Chronicle

Daily Headlines: July 18, 2012

* Mexico: The head of Mexico's banking and securities commission defended the regulator amid claims that HSBC ignored warnings of money laundering by drug gangs.

* Cuba: The Cuban government announced an increase in import taxes days after the island received its first cargo shipment from the U.S. in fifty years.

* Colombia: Tensions continue in the war-torn Cauca province where the indigenous community has sought the removal of the military and FARC guerillas.

* Chile: A court charged two ex-military men with torturing and killing the father of former president Michelle Bachelet in 1974.

Video Source– YouTube via Al Jazeera English

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