Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Daily briefs: November 15th

* Environmental experts severely criticized the Brazilian government’s plan to build a network of dams in the Amazon rain forest.

* Prosecutors flew in relatives from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Honduras in the case of a truck driver accused of negligence in the deaths of 19 people smuggled into the U.S.

* The Miami Herald looked at the lives of poor Honduran children that live in the country’s major dumps just to survive.

* Switzerland’s two largest banks halted all transactions with Cuba as they consider the island to be a “sensitive” country.

Links- Finance 24 (South Africa), CNN, Miami Herald, International Herald Tribune

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