Monday, August 31, 2009

Daily Headlines: August 31, 2009

* Mexico: Another day, another case of a disabled U.S. citizen getting inadvertently deported to Mexico.

* Latin America: Colombian president Alvaro Uribe joins his Costa Rican counterpart Oscar Arias as the latest regional leader to get the swine flu.

* Puerto Rico: How bad is Puerto Rico’s economy? The pay gap between the island and the rest of the U.S. has nearly doubled according to recent figures.

* Chile: First swine flu was recently found in Chilean turkeys and now nearly 1000 sea lion pups were found dead off the country’s northern coast.

Image- MSNBC (“A youth stands in the gates at the U.S.-Mexico border in late May awaiting his deportation at the San Ysidro port of entry in Tijuana, Mexico.”)
Online Sources- New York Times, UPI, BBC News, LAHT, AHN, Bloomberg

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