Daily Headlines: January 27, 2014

* Mexico: Acclaimed Mexican poet and novelist Jose Emilio Pacheco died on Sunday at the age of 74.

* U.S.: Puerto Rican Robi Draco Rosa, Los Angeles-based group La Santa Cecilia and jazz collaboration Paquito D'Rivera and Trio Corrente were among the Latino winners at yesterday’s Grammys.

* Peru: A court cleared several former senior Peruvian officials including ex-President Alberto Fujimori of planning the forced sterilizations of some 2000 women in the 1990s.

* Honduras: High levels of violence, economic inequality and political divisions are some of the challenges to be faced by Juan Orlando Hernandez who will be inaugurated today as the next president of Honduras.

Video Source – Europa Press via YouTube

Online Sources- Bloomberg; CNN; GlobalPost; Huffington Post

Daily Headlines: April 26, 2011

* Latin America: Israeli defense firms are seeking a larger piece of the Latin American arms market.

* Puerto Rico: Best wishes to Puerto Rican musician and songwriter Robi Draco Rosa who was diagnosed with cancer.

* Argentina: Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Buenos Aires and urged “freedom of assembly and greater press freedom.”

* Cuba: The U.S. Coast Guard repatriated thirteen Cubans who were initially found last week in vessels off the Floridian coast.

Image – Bruno Domingos/Reuters via CBC News (“A model of a Grippen fighter jet at an air show in Rio in April 2009. (In 2009) Brazil had the biggest military budget in the region.”)
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