Latin American Herald Tribune | Headlines - October 3, 2009

Venezuela (Click here for more Venezuela news)

10/2/2009	Chavez Backers Win Control of Oil-Workers Union
10/2/2009	Guyana Opposition Hails New Mediator in Venezuela Border Dispute
10/1/2009	Colombia Seen Poised to Turn Off Gas for Venezuela
9/30/2009	83 Dead from Swine Flu in Venezuela
9/30/2009	Venezuela Asks Interpol to Arrest Former President

Colombia (Click here for more)

10/2/2009	Colombian Marine Killed in Clash with Rebels
10/2/2009	Colombian Gets 15 Years for Fathering 7 Kids with Daughter
10/2/2009	Two Found Slain in Bogota Restaurant
10/1/2009	Colombian Congressman Arrested for Threatening Voters
10/1/2009	Mounted Gunman Kills Councilman in Central Colombia

Ecuador (Click here for more)

10/1/2009	14 Tourists, 8 Ecuadorians Rescued After Shipwreck in Galapagos
10/1/2009	45 Families Affected by Fire in Ecuador
10/1/2009	Ecuadorian President Says Indian Died in Protests
9/30/2009	Colombia Restricts Sale of Electricity to Venezuela, Ecuador
9/25/2009	Ecuador and Colombia to Start Talks Aimed at Normalizing Relations

Central America

10/1/2009	Honduran De Facto President Says He’d Go If Told To
9/30/2009	Honduras Government Blamed for 14 Deaths
9/30/2009	Drought, Blight Destroy 208K Tons of Grain in Guatemala
9/29/2009	Salvadoran Police Arrest 33 on Murder Charges
9/29/2009	Guatemalan Rights Activist Reports Death Threats

Cuba

10/1/2009	Cuba: Obama Maintaining Embargo with Change in Language
9/30/2009	U.S. Congress Urged to End Ban on Cuba Travel
9/30/2009	Fidel Castro Meets with President of Cyprus
9/29/2009	U.S. Official Held Undisclosed Talks in Cuba
9/28/2009	Raul Castro Meets with Vietnam’s President

Brazil (Click here for more)

10/2/2009	Rio de Janeiro Celebrates Its Choice as Site of 2016 Olympics
10/1/2009	Brazilian Architect Niemeyer Undergoes Second Surgery
9/30/2009	Brazilian Court Orders Stop to Work on 2 Petrobras Refineries
9/28/2009	Docs Give Brazil Presidential Hopeful Clean Bill of Health
9/27/2009	Brazilian Police: France’s Alstom Paid $1.3 Million to “Phantom” Company

Mexico

10/2/2009	Three Dead as Military Plane Crashes in Western Mexico
10/2/2009	One Dead in Mexico Mine Accident
10/2/2009	Six Gunned Down in Mexican Border City
10/2/2009	Mexico Seizes 37 Tons of Meth Ingredients
10/2/2009	Makers of Tequila, Mezcal, Blast Mexico’s New Consumption Tax

Caribbean

9/30/2009	“Alarming” Increase in Trafficking of Haitian Kids to Dominican Republic
9/29/2009	Man Hurls Egg at Puerto Rico Governor
9/29/2009	Dominican Republic Arrests, Sends Colombian Drug Trafficker to U.S.
9/28/2009	Puerto Rico Unions Announce General Strike
9/28/2009	Two Arrested for Bank Robbery in Dominican Republic

Argentina

10/2/2009	YPF to Invest $396 Million in Refinery in Argentina
10/1/2009	Former Governor Gets 25 Years in Argentina Rights Case
10/1/2009	Woman Posing as Employee Robs Bank Customer in Argentina
9/30/2009	Controversy Erupts Over Supposed Meteorite That Fell in Argentina

Chile

10/2/2009	Chile Halts Geothermal Exploration Near Geyser Field
9/29/2009	Chile’s Bachelet Pushes Indian Affairs Ministry
9/28/2009	Chilean Family Finds Millennia-Old Human Bones in Yard
9/26/2009	Forestry Company in Chile to Lock Out 35,000 Workers for Plant Blockade

Peru

9/30/2009	Moderate Quake Rocks Southern Peru
9/29/2009	Peru Prison Becomes Disco on Weekends
9/29/2009	Peru to Use Sports to Counter Guerrillas, Drug Traffickers

Latin America (Click here for more)

10/2/2009	Greenpeace Faults Spanish Companies for Harmful Impact on Latin America
10/2/2009	Guyana Opposition Hails New Mediator in Venezuela Border Dispute
10/2/2009	Powerful Chicago Gang Boss Arrested
10/1/2009	Group Seeks to Get Hispanic Kids Out of the Fields

World (Click here for more)

10/2/2009	Latino Woman Promotes Los Angeles Development
10/1/2009	Spain Takes Over Command at Kabul Airport
9/29/2009	U.S. Government to File Another Pro-Spain Brief in Treasure Case
9/29/2009	Spain Seeks Protection for Fishing Boats Off Somalia

Business & Economy (Click here for more)

10/2/2009	Nearly 4 Million Spaniards Out of Work
10/1/2009	Auto Sales Up in Spain in September
9/21/2009	Slim Buys 60 Percent of U.S. Oil Services Firm’s Mexican Unit

Oil & Minerals (Click here for more)

9/17/2009	Venezuela To Get $36 Billion in Oil Investment from Russia, China
9/14/2009	Venezuela's Chavez Says Huge New Gas Find Another Reason to Boost Defense Against USA

Opinion (Click here for more)

10/2/2009	VenEconomy: Victory for the Leader…
10/2/2009	VenEconomía: Ganó el Líder…
10/1/2009	VenEconomy: PDVSA in the Doldrums
10/1/2009	VenEconomía: PDVSA de Capa Caída
9/30/2009	VenEconomy: The Oarsmen of Democracy in Venezuela

Sports (Click here for more)

10/2/2009	Rio de Janeiro Celebrates Its Choice as Site of 2016 Olympics
9/28/2009	Lightning Kills 1 Soccer Player, Injures Another in El Salvador
9/27/2009	One Fan Dead, Two Injured by Rival Team’s Supporters in Colombia
9/24/2009	American Cowboy Hurt During Rodeo in Spain

Living (Click here for more)

10/2/2009	Argentina Singer Mercedes Sosa in Grave Condition
10/2/2009	Cuban Intellectual Cintio Vitier Passes Away at 88
10/1/2009	Mexican Lottery Sets 2nd Guinness Record This Year
10/1/2009	Singer Mercedes Sosa Hospitalized in Argentina
10/1/2009	Juan Carlos Mestre Wins Spain’s National Poetry Prize