Daily Headlines: February 7, 2013 (UPDATED)

* Chile: The Chilean Navy was ordered to investigate a group of sailors caught on video chanting, “I will kill Argentines, I will shoot Bolivians, I will behead Peruvians.”

Update: A report from the Chilean Navy said that the chant by a group of sailors in Viña del Mar was an "improvised" form of a "typical" song used by the military in training.

The report, which was ordered by the federal government in response to the controversial video, labeled the chant as "offensive" but called for the leader of the chant to be punished rather than the entire group of 27 sailors.

* South America: Police in Peru nabbed the suspected head of Los Urabeños, a Colombian neo-paramilitary criminal gang involve in drug trafficking.

* Cuba: Lack of demand is reportedly to blame for a decline in the number of charter flights between the U.S. and Cuba.

* U.S.: Can Governors Brian Sandoval and Susana Martinez help attract Latino voters to the Republican Party?

Video Source – YouTube via user Guillermo Rossini

Online Sources including Update- La Nacion, ABC News, UPI, Miami Herald, New York Times

Update: Brazilian faked “skinhead” attack

A Brazilian woman allegedly admitted that a xenophobic assault against her by Swiss skinheads was all a hoax.

According to Swiss prosecutors, Paula Oliviera confessed not only to faking the attack against her but also lied about being pregnant and having miscarried her twins due to the assault. Police also said that the cuts on her abdomen bearing the initials of the right-wing Swiss People's Party corroborate claims made by local forensics experts that her wounds were self-inflicted.

Swiss officials have removed Olivera’s passport while they investigate her for misleading police. Prosecutors have not revealed any possible motives behind her allegations.

Olivera’s case led to outrage in her native Brazil and a renewed focus on racist attacks in Europe. (The 2007 assault of an Ecuadorian teen on the Barcelona metro comes to mind).

Despite the change in Olivera’s story, Brazil's Foreign Minister said that his government will keep providing her with “all necessary support”:

Amorim said he was not officially informed of the investigation, but the government will keep on supporting one of its citizens.

"We must give attention and support to our fellow citizen," the minister said. "That is what we have been doing and what we will keep on doing, following international norms."

Image- BBC News
Online Sources- BBC News, Xinhua, AP, earthtimes.org, The Latin Americanist, Expatica Switzerland