Thursday, March 5, 2009

Daily Headlines: March 5, 2009

* U.S.: According to prosecutors an imprisoned Salvadoran killed former government intern Chandra Levy in 2003.

* Mexico: The country’s Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a Mexico City ordinance permitting first trimester abortions.

* U.S.: A Rhode Island school administrator was put on leave after he grabbed a Dominican flag from a pair of students and stepped on it.

* Brazil: The country’s senior human rights official admitted that Brazil could take in Guantanamo Bay detainees.

Image- AFP (“Photographs of Chandra Levy are displayed during a 2002 memorial”)
Online Sources- The Latin Americanist, Guardian UK, CNN, FOX News, LAHT

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