Monday, March 16, 2009

Daily Headlines: March 16, 2009

* Mexico: Members of the “emo” youth subculture continue to be harassed and discriminated according to Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission.

* Bolivia:
“It is time for the international community to reverse its misguided policy toward the coca leaf” wrote Bolivian president Evo Morales in a New York Times opinion piece published on Friday.

* Latin America: Over 300 journalists were killed in the Americas from 1987 to 2008 according to the Inter American Press Association.

* Nicaragua: President Daniel Ortega and U.S. officials are at loggerheads over the withholding of $62 million in aid to the Central American nation.

Image- Rolling Stone
Online Sources- New York Times, eTaiwan News, miamiherald.com, The Latin Americanist, MSNBC

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