Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Daily Headlines: July 22, 2008

* Cuba: President Raul Castro called for providing private farmers with increased access to government-controlled lands.

* Peru: At least twenty-five people died when two buses crashed into each other near a coastal town.

* Nicaragua: The government honored the widow of Erich Honecker- the former East German leader who was in charge of constructing the Berlin Wall.

* Colombia: President Alvaro Uribe backed away from a referendum project which planned to redo the 2006 presidential election.

Image- MSNBC (“A farmer collects tomatoes on a tractor in a farm in Guira de Melena, 80 miles south of Havana.”)

Sources- AFP, Al Jazeera English, Bloomberg, Deutsche Welle

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