Monday, April 6, 2009

Daily Headlines: April 6, 2009

* Bolivia: "It's like giving money to the wolves, or to entrust the care of the flock: the wolf is not going to keep the sheep, it will devour them,” said President Evo Morales in opposition to last week’s $1 trillion G20 deal.

* Argentina: Tens of thousands of people lined the streets of Buenos Aires on Thursday and bid farewell to recently deceased ex-President Raul Alfonsin.

* U.S.: Thousands of protestors rallied in south Florida and called for the granting of temporary protected status for Haitians.

* Colombia: A former commander of Colombia’s rightist paramilitaries claimed that he “never felt pursued by either the army or the police or any other state institution.”

Image- BBC News (Thousands of people took to the streets of the London last week to protest during the G20 summit).
Online Sources- LAHT, PRESS TV, Palm Beach Post, The Latin Americanist, Reuters

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