Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Daily Headlines: January 23, 2008

* Commuting Mexico City women tired of being goosed and ogled now have a new option – female-only buses.

* Venezuela’s government is on alert to combat food smuggling across the border into Colombia.

* Landless framers in Brazil invaded a ranch formerly owned by a drug baron.

* United Nations soldiers should not withdraw early from Haiti according to a U.N. official.

Sources- Monsters & Critics, International Herald Tribune, Reuters

Image- MSNBC (“A bus with a sign reading "service exclusive for women" drives through the streets of Mexico City last week.”)

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