Friday, July 18, 2008

Daily Headlines: July 18, 2008

* Argentina: The country’s Senate voted by a razor-thin one vote margin in favor of farmers and against a government-backed plan to raise export taxes.

* Panama: Geologists have found hundreds of animal fossils which could help explain how the American continent was formed.

* Brazil: Thousands of striking workers of state-run oil firm Petrobras may soon expand their strike across the country.

* Cuba: Has Cuba been “working around the U.S. internet embargo” by secretly cooperating with Venezuela?

Image- New York Times (“Farmers in Buenos Aires on Thursday celebrated the rejection by the Argentinean senate of the grain-export tax package.”)

Sources- BBC News, The Latin Americanist, Reuters, Bloomberg, Slashdot


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