Friday, August 4, 2006

Evening briefs: ‘Banco de Wal-Mart’ coming soon to Mexico?

*Wal-Mart’s Mexican division started filing paperwork in order to open its own banking unit.

*Venezuela ordered its diplomatic envoy to Israel to return to Caracas.

*Workers at the world’s largest copper mine (image) in Chile are close to going on strike.

*An ex-policeman was sentenced to 25 years in jail for human rights abuses during the Argentine dictatorship between 1976 and 1983.

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