Daily Headlines: February 26, 2014

* Mexico: Spanish flamenco guitar master Paco de Lucia died in Cancun, Mexico today at the age of 66.

* Argentina: Repsol’s executive board approved a plan that would permit the Argentine government to pay the Spanish firm $5 billion in compensation for the 2012 nationalization of energy company YPF.

* Chile: Scientists believe that whale fossils in Chile‘s Atacama desert and dating back millions of years might be the first example of repeated mass strandings of marine mammals.

* Brazil: The Brazilian tourism board asked Adidas to stop selling World Cup t-shirts with double entendre phrases and sexualized images on them.

Video Source – YouTube user slowhand44dz
 
Online Sources- Businessweek; LAHT; The Latin Americanist; The Independent; Reuters

Daily Headlines: April 23, 2010

* Haiti: 125,000 tons of counterfeit clothing confiscated in New York City will be donated to Haitian earthquake victims.

* Venezuela: Police confiscated over four tons of cocaine from a series of drug labs near the border with Colombia.

* Brazil: Toyota’s auto safety problems have extended into Brazil where the state of Minas Gerais suspended sales of all Corolla sedans.

* Chile: According to Chilean police a teen was arrested in an alleged hate crime assault of an Afro-Cuban man.

Image – The Telegraph (“Earthquake survivors unload food from a UN helicopter.”)
Sources- Bloomberg, LAHT, CNN, MSNBC

Quote of the Day: Bolivia and raggedy old t-shirts you don't wear

“It's impossible to think that we can be dignified if, in the name of poverty, we wear clothing that has been thrown out in another country.”

--Ramiro Uchani, Bolivia’s deputy minister of small business.

Bolivia’s government has campaigned against its citizens buying and wearing used clothing donated from industrialized nations.

Image- Earth Island Institute (Bolivian president Evo Morales wears a trademark striped sweater has become increasingly popular in the country)

Source- Newsday