Sunday, November 29, 2009

Weekend Headlines: November 28-29, 2009

* Latin America: According to according to an International Red Cross report “social and economic inequality” has caused the spread of AIDS throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

* Brazil: Was an environmental summit held in Brazil weeks before a major conference in Copenhagen a failure?

* Cuba: The country will celebrate its Day of Defense today as the armed forces winds down five days of major military exercises.

* Chile: FIFA backed down from its threat of taking away Chile’s spot in the World Cup after a local club dropped its lawsuit against the Chilean soccer federation.

Image – AFP (“A nurse draws blood from a patient for an HIV test in Johannesburg”).
Online Sources- LAHT, ESPN, Al Jazeera English, CNN

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