Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Daily Headlines: December 2, 2009

* Argentina: Hours before Latin America’s first official gay marriage was to take place yesterday an Argentine judge ordered that the historic ceremony be suspended.

* Mexico: The mother of the figure believed to be of Zapatista rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos died at the age of 70.

* Latin America: The FBI will return over 150 pre-Columbian artifacts, including some over 3000 years old, which were smuggled out of Peru and Ecuador.

* Brazil: Some Brazilians are peeved at Robin Williams after the comedian joked that Rio de Janeiro used "50 strippers and a pound of blow" to win the 2016 Olympics bid.

Image – CBC (“Jose Maria Di Bello, left, and Alex Freyre were going to marry on World AIDS Day until a national judge blocked the wedding. (Natacha Pisarenko/Associated Press)”).
Online Sources- AP, AFP, MSNBC, The Latin Americanist, Reuters

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