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Mexican factories remain closed following explosions linked to the Popular Revolutionary Army rebel group. New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times

The Chilean supreme court refused to honor extradition requests to send former president Alberto Fujimori to Peru to stand trial. Washington Post, Miami Herald, Financial Times

The Venezuelan stock market has suffered a large blow through the nationalization of the privately owned telecommunications and gas companies by Hugo Chavez. Miami Herald

Copper prices have spiked in Chile after a strike at the Collahuasi mine. Financial Times

Rio hopes that hosting the Pan American Games will revitalize the city as well as help its bid for the 2016 Olympics. Wall Street Journal

Fidel Castro decried the use of foreign currency by Cubans in another essay published by Granma. AP

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