Friday, March 19, 2010

Daily Headlines: March 19, 2010

* Brazil: While Pope Benedict XVI has been caught up in a sex abuse scandal another controversy is brewing in Brazil where a priest was allegedly caught on camera having sex with a teen.

* Guatemala: Former President Alfonso Portillo is a stone’s throw from being extradited to the U.S. to go on trial for corruption.

* Dominican Republic: Dominican police have upped the manhunt to capture the man one U.S. Marshal described as “the Pablo Escobar of the Caribbean.”

* Venezuela: Execs at Royal Dutch Shell backtracked from claims that foreign oil firms are losing interest in investing in Venezuela due to the Chavez administration’s policies.

Image – Huffington Post
Online Sources- CBS News, CNN, Time, Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post

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