Below you’ll find news digests about the Americas from this week’s The Economist (online access requires a subscription.) Also in this edition: longer articles about Ahmadinejad’s visit to South America and Venezuela’s attempts to mass produce cars.
“President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran visited South America. In Brazil he was hugged by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who called on Western nations to drop their threats of punishment over Iran’s nuclear programme but urged Iran to negotiate a ‘just and balanced’ solution that met the West’s concerns. In both Brazil and Venezuela, where he met Hugo Chávez, there were protests against his visit. See article
Canada’s government rejected allegations by one of its diplomats that detainees handed over to Afghan authorities by Canadian forces in 2006-07 were probably all tortured, and that the government may have tried to cover this up. See article
Argentina’s Congress passed a law approving the forced extraction of DNA from people suspected of having been stolen as babies from female prisoners of the 1976-83 military dictatorship, and given to army and police families.
Police in Peru claimed, to some scepticism, to have arrested members of a gang that murdered dozens of people to drain their body fat and sell it for use in cosmetics.”
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