* Guatemala: A sign of the faltering global economy – remittances to Guatemala in the first five months of this year fell by 9.5% compared to the same period in 2008.* Spain: Charges are expected to be filed against the owners of a Valencia bakery who negligently threw out the arm of a Bolivian laborer after it was severed on the job.
* Colombia: Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and several Canadian opposition lawmakers did not see eye-to-eye when Uribe spoke at the House of Commons in Ottawa yesterday.
* Chile: Two former generals were sentenced to three years in jail for illegally selling weapons to Croatia in the 1990s.
Image- Reuters (“People walk outside a Western Union branch in New York March 28, 2009.”)
Online Sources- AP, BBC News, LAHT, Canadian Press
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