Thursday, January 29, 2009

Daily Headlines: January 29, 2009

* Cuba: According to the AFP lawyers for the convicted “Cuban Five” spies will file an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court.

* Chile: Chile’s indigenous Mapuche community usually don’t see eye-to-eye with the government; thus, a local history teacher recently created the country’s first Mapuche political party.

* Bolivia: "We want to rebuild our relations with the U.S.” declared Bolivia’s foreign minister yesterday who added that both countries could soon exchange ambassadors.

* Peru: A local court controversially freed two ex-military officers accused of participating in the 1991 Barrios Altos massacre.

Image- New York Times (“Cuba’s government has put signs and posters like this one, in Havana, all over the island as a reminder of the imprisonment of” the Cuban Five.)
Online Sources- Guardian UK, AFP, AP, BBC News, The Latin Americanist

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