Friday, January 25, 2008

Daily Headlines: January 25, 2008

* Follow-up: Chilean indigenous rights groups are outraged at the attempted force feeding of jailed Mapuche activist Patricia Troncoso who has been fasting for over 100 days.

* A Californian and Uruguayan have been sentenced to thirty years in prison for a pair of hotel bombings in Bolivia.

* Cuba’s cruise industry is crippled and blaming it on the U.S. trade embargo.

* Indian auto companies is expanding into Latin America; earlier this month, car firm Mahindra & Mahindra opened an assembly plant in Brazil.

Sources- unpo.org, the Latin Americanist, International Herald Tribune, Guardian UK, Reuters

Image- mapuexpress

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