Morning briefs

* Immunity lifted from Argentina ex-dictator Jorge Videla (image via Deutsche Welle).

* U.N. study shows that Dominican women living abroad continue to be discriminated although they have greater economic opportunities.

* Pressure intensifying to choose between Guatemala and Venezuela for one of Latin America’s U.N. Security Council seats.

* Colombia’s government wants to join an Asian economic bloc by next year.

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