11.30.2006
Thursday's News
The statute of limitations to try former Mexican interior minister and president Luis EcheverrÃa was extended, allowing special prosecutors to move forward on genocide charges in the massacre of students in 1968. New York Times, BBC
The polling wars in Venezuela continue, as opposition candidate Manuel Rosales claims that he is in the lead despite most polls giving president Hugo Chavez roughly a 20 point advantage. Financial Times
Gustavo Coronel of the Cato Institute pens an op-ed where he attacks Chavez for a poor record on corruption and allevation of poverty in his eight years as president. Miami Herald
The former director of DAS in Colombia ordered leaks of DEA data to drug traffickers, according to a former DAS official now in prison. El Nuevo Herald
Ecuadorian president-elect Rafael Correa represents the consummate political outsider and a rejection of the establishment in the country. Christian Science Monitor
Correa vows that he will not renew an agreement with the United States which expires in 2009 to operate an airstrip out of the port city of Manta. Washington Times
The polling wars in Venezuela continue, as opposition candidate Manuel Rosales claims that he is in the lead despite most polls giving president Hugo Chavez roughly a 20 point advantage. Financial Times
Gustavo Coronel of the Cato Institute pens an op-ed where he attacks Chavez for a poor record on corruption and allevation of poverty in his eight years as president. Miami Herald
The former director of DAS in Colombia ordered leaks of DEA data to drug traffickers, according to a former DAS official now in prison. El Nuevo Herald
Ecuadorian president-elect Rafael Correa represents the consummate political outsider and a rejection of the establishment in the country. Christian Science Monitor
Correa vows that he will not renew an agreement with the United States which expires in 2009 to operate an airstrip out of the port city of Manta. Washington Times
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