Thursday, September 25, 2014

Daily Headlines: September 25, 2014


* Brazil: Researchers in Brazil released yesterday mosquitoes infected with the Wolbachia bacteria in order to curb the spread of the deadly dengue disease.

* Chile: One man was killed reportedly while handling an explosive artifact in an incident that occurred over two weeks after a bomb detonated at a Santiago subway station.

* Guatemala: Five people were arrested over their suspected role in the killings of eleven people including six from a single family in the Guatemalan indigenous village of San Juan Sacatepequez.

* El Salvador: Human rights group Amnesty International criticized El Salvador’s ban on all abortion as causing “discrimination against and criminalization of women.”

Video Source – Reuters via YouTube

Online Sources – Fox News Latino; Zee News; The Latin Americanist; SBS; NBC News

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