Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Daily Headlines: June 24, 2008

* Argentina: The Argentine Congress will debate a controversial tariff plan that has pitted farmers vs. the government and threatens to plunge the country into economic chaos.

* Mexico: Mexico City's police have come under fire for their role in a nightclub stampede which killed twelve people.

* Ecuador: The country’s constitutional assembly chief resigned after claiming that there’s not enough time to rewrite the constitution.

* Colombia: In a video released over the weekend, a Colombian hostage blamed both the government and guerillas for their “cruelty and barbarism” in not reaching a humanitarian agreement.

Image- Los Angeles Times (“Argentines protest in Buenos Aires last week. Middle-class people worried about rising prices have sided with farmers in their dispute with the government over the tariff.”)

Sources- The Latin Americanist, Bloomberg, chicagotribune.com, Reuters, BBC News

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