Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Daily Headlines: March 22, 2011

* Guatemala: First Lady Sandra Torres de Colom will allegedly divorce from her husband, President Alvaro Colom, in order to legally run in this September’s presidential election.

* Venezuela: The Chavez administration inked several economic deals with China including “a $4 billion line of credit for Caracas' housing investments.”

* Argentina: President Cristina Fernandez may have her back against he wall over a money laundering investigation that led to calls of a general strike.

* Colombia: Author Juan Gabriel Vasquez won the prestigious Alfaguara Spanish literary prize for his novel on the "dark balance of an age of terror and violence" in Bogota.

Image – AP via BBC News
Online Sources- ABC News, Sify, AFP, The Telegraph

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