Showing posts with label Hector Camacho. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hector Camacho. Show all posts
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Weekend Headlines: December 1-2, 2012
* Mexico: Police clashed with protesters opposed to Enrique Peña Nieto while he was being inaugurated on Saturday as president of Mexico.
* Latin America: The presidents of Colombia and Nicaragua agreed to use dialogue to resolve a territorial dispute while the Peruvian and Chilean presidents said that they would respect an upcoming international court ruling on maritime boundaries.
* Paraguay: At least 69 people have died this year in Paraguay as a result of the dengue fever that has also killed over 400 people throughout Latin America.
* Brazil: President Dilma Rousseff vetoed portions of a controversial bill that would redistribute oil royalties amongst Brazilian states.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Daily Headlines: November 27, 2012
* Panama: At least five people are dead and parts of Panama are under a state of emergency as a result of damage from torrential rainfall.
* Puerto Rico: The murder of former champion boxer Hector “Macho” Camacho has shined a light on the rampant violence in Puerto Rico that includes at least 858 homicides this year.
* U.S.: Could “undocumented immigrants” be named as Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2012?
* Colombia: One of the FARC negotiators involved in peace talks between the guerillas and the Colombian government claimed that both sides are “on the same wavelength.”
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Daily Headlines: November 21, 2012 (Updated)
* Puerto Rico: Former world boxing champion Hector “Macho” Camacho remains in critical condition and is reportedly struggling to survive after he was shot last night.
Update (November 22): Hector “Macho” Camacho is brain dead and close to death according to doctors overseeing the critically injured former pugilist.
"We have done everything we could,"said Dr. Ernesto Torres of the Centro Medico trauma center in San Juan to the press on Thursday morning.
He added that Camacho's family will decide by Friday whether to take the former three-time title holder off of life support machines.
* Venezuela: The Venezuelan economy grew by over five percent in the third quarter but manufacturing has supposedly hit a fifty-year low.
* Argentina: Buenos Aires and other major cities were paralyzed yesterday after Argentina's main labor unions declared a general strike.
* Honduras: Could Xiomara Castro, the wife of ousted ex-president Manuel Zelaya, win next year's Honduran presidential election?
Video Source: YouTube via Associated Press
Online Sources including Update: Globalpost, ABC News, BBC News, Fox News Latino, Reuters, Huffington Post
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