Daily Headlines: July 26, 2007

* Coffee chain Starbucks will open its first stores in Argentina and expand operations in Chile.

* Raul Castro, not his ill brother Fidel, will preside over the Cuban government’s Revolution Day speech today.

* Venezuela plans to spend $631 billion in fixing over 60 public hospitals this year.

* The legislature in the Dominican Republic is considering the possibility of decriminalizing some types of abortions.

Sources- SignOnSanDiego.com, International Herald Tribune, Bloomberg, Dominican Today

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