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

Daily Headlines: July 05, 2007

* Venezuela agreed to sell gasoline to Iran after the heads of state for both countries met in Tehran earlier this week.

* “In terms of a short term response, it is quite remarkable how Cuba, under its economic conditions, managed to solve (their energy) crisis,” declared a U.N. official yesterday.

* Poachers are believed to be behind the deaths of eight endangered tortoises on the Galapagos Islands.

* U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza said that he will not quit his post to run for governor of Texas.

* Striking Bolivian miners refused to negotiate with the government.

* Follow-up: In a close final vote in Guatemala City yesterday, Sochi, Russia was selected as the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Sources- CNN, International Herald Tribune, Houston Chronicle, Reuters AlertNet, The Latin Americanist, Canada.com

Image- BBC News (Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez meets with his Iranian counterpart, Mahmud Ahmadinejad, earlier this week)