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World Briefing | The Americas: Brazil: Amazon Logging Accelerates
data: 01.10.08
The Amazon rain forest is being deforested more than twice as rapidly as last year.
 President Álvaro Uribe apologized to the Red Cross for the misuse of its symbol during a military mission, which he said was an unauthorized error by a nervous soldier.
 Canadian health officials said 12 deaths were linked to tainted meat and have confirmed 26 cases of Listeriosis, a bacterial illness, saying more were expected.
 At least 38 Warao Indians have died from an outbreak that preliminary studies indicate might be a type of infectious rabies transmitted by bites from bats.
President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela will meet King Juan Carlos of Spain on the island of Mallorca next week during a European tour, a Spanish government spokesman said.
 Thomas King’s foray into electoral politics is, in an American context, about as predictable as Garrison Keillor abandoning Lake Wobegon for a shot at Congress.
Citing the global economic downturn and the rising cost of oil, Raúl Castro said Cuba and other countries in the developing world face severe challenges that would require belt-tightening and patience.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil dipped his hands on Tuesday in the first oil from vast new reserves.
 A growing number of Argentines are stockpiling dollars amid worries that their government’s economic policies have doomed them to yet another financial crisis.
 The rapid disappearance of historic architecture in Trinidad is provoking a sometimes heated debate about the merits of historic preservation.
A veteran crime reporter in the border city of Ciudad Juárez was fatally shot as he left his home on Thursday morning, according to the authorities and news reports.
A criminal complaint filed in the Spanish High Court has revived hopes that those behind the massacre of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador’s civil war could face trial.
 How Alberto Capella Ibarra managed to survive the night when he says 250 bullets were fired at him.
In Brazil, the government is encouraging farmers to produce more for export while prices are high. But Argentina is focused on encouraging farmers to sell more at home.
 Chile’s health minister said that the country’s public health system and private-sector services failed to notify people that they were infected with H.I.V.
 A two-story school partly collapsed Wednesday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, injuring at least five students less than a week after the collapse of a school on the city’s outskirts.
Polecamy:
1. The Saturday Profile: Protecting Herself as Much as Her Drug Lord Clients
data: 15.11.08
Silvia Raquenel Villanueva, Mexico’s most prominent “narco abogada,” or lawyer to the drug lords, continues to receive threats, which she deflects with prayer.
2. World Briefing | The Americas: Venezuela: Chávez Sings on New Album
data: 15.11.08
President Hugo Chávez, who has been known to belt out Venezuelan folk songs during his frequent television appearances, has recorded an album.
3. 5 Die in Shootout at Mexican Jail
data: 15.11.08
There has been a wave of killings in Mexican jails over the past few months, as the battles between rival drug cartels carry over to prisons.
4. World Briefing | The Americas: Mexico: Bomb Ruled Out in Plane Crash
data: 15.11.08
Authorities investigating the cause of a plane crash that killed Mexico’s interior minister this week ruled out a bomb, officials said.
5. School on Haitian Hillside Collapses, Killing 30
data: 15.11.08
More children were believed to be buried in the rubble of the concrete building, and the death toll was likely to rise, said a civil defense official at the scene.
6. Getting Tough: Deported in a Coma, Saved Back in U.S.
data: 15.11.08
Antonio Torres’s case illustrates the haphazard way that the health care system handles uninsured immigrants.
7. Death Toll Rises to 92 in School Collapse in Haiti
data: 15.11.08
Officials said 700 children had been enrolled at a ramshackle school, but it was not known how many were inside when it caved in while class was in session.
8. National Briefing | South: Florida: Smuggling Charges Filed in Fatal Voyage
data: 15.11.08
A boat captain from the Dominican Republic has been charged with smuggling illegal immigrants after his vessel ran aground near Miami on Oct. 31, killing six people.
9. World Briefing | The Americas: Mexico: Interior Minister Is Named
data: 15.11.08
President Felipe Calderón appointed Fernando Francisco Gómez Mont, a lawyer and former lawmaker, as the new interior minister.
10. Rescuers, Finding No New Survivors, Will Raze Haiti School
data: 15.11.08
Rescuers at a collapsed school in Haiti were ending the hunt for survivors and will soon demolish the remains of the building, where about 90 people were killed.
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