Thursday, October 8, 2009

Daily Headlines: October 8, 2009

* Latin America: The latest Times Higher Education and QS Top Universities study of the world’s top 100 universities revealed that none of the schools on the list are from Latin America.

* Costa Rica: Ex-president Rafael Calderon was convicted and sentenced to five years in jail for an embezzlement scheme.

* Latin America:
The World Monuments Fund named Peru’s Machu Picchu, Buenos Aires’ Teatro Colon, and the historic center of Colon, Panama as three of the world’s most endangered cultural sites.

* Colombia: Police arrested three suspects in the massacre of twelve indigenous Colombians last August.

Image- BBC Mundo (Mexico’s UNAM may be one of the best universities in Latin America but it was excluded from a list of the world’s 100 leading colleges.)
Online Sources- Guardian UK, Bloomberg, MSNBC, CNN

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