Monday, August 28, 2006

Afternoon headlines: Montesinos convicted; border state governors irate at Bush admin

* Vlademiro Montesinos, the man behind the rise and fall of Peruvian ex-president Alberto Fujimori, was convicted for illegally using government money to pay for Fujimori’s 2000 reelection campaign.

* Jamaican importers are losing revenue on cargo ships that bypass Kingston’s port for the much cheaper Cascado Port in the Dominican Republic.

* President Bush is pushing Congress to ratify a free trade agreement with Colombia.

* Not content with going after “Vamos a Cuba, Miami-Dade public school officials want to remove another children’s book on Cuba from school libraries.

*U.S. governors of states along the border with Mexico accused the Bush administration and Congress of being lax in not passing immigration reform.

* “We are all very ashamed” says coach of Argentina soccer club San Lorenzo after losing 7-1 at home against Boca Juniors.

* Last but certainly not least, rest in piece to the Ecuadorian woman who had been the world’s oldest person; Maria Esther de Capovilla (image via The Age) passed away over the weekend in Guayaquil at the age 116 years.

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