Saturday, November 15, 2008

Daily Headlines: November 15, 2008

* U.S.: Could Hillary Clinton get her revenge on Bill Richardson for not endorsing her presidential bid or is my tin foil hat on too tight?

* Panama: An eagle-eyed blogger discovered that a financial exec working for a local firm was the former Grand Wizard of the Canadian Ku Klux Klan.

* Ecuador: Worries over debt repayments led Standard & Poor's and Moody's to downgrade Ecuador's credit rating.

* Uruguay: As was expected, President Tabare Vazquez vetoed a bill that would've depenalized first trimester abortions.

Image- AP (“Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks at a New York Public Transit Association conference in Albany on Friday, Nov. 14, 2008.”)
Sources-
The Latin Americanist, Bloomberg, National Post, Reuters, TVNZ

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