Here is news from Latin America.
Honduras Becomes ALBA’s Sixth Member
ALBA stands for Alternativa Bolivariana para las Américas or Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas. Honduras today joined the group becoming its sixth member. The group was founded by Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro in December 2004 with the goal of encouraging intergration in Latin America along leftist lines. The group has not met with much success and still retains undefined goals. Other members of the group include Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua.
Brazil’s Bid to Host the Olympic Games in 2016
With the Olympic Games in Beijing now a memory and London the host for the games in 2012, the race is on for the rights to host the games in 2016. The Olympic Games have never been held in South America and only once in Latin America (Mexico City in 1968) but Rio de Janiero hopes to secure the games with its bid. Rio de Janiero recently up its chances of hosting the games with very successful and organized Pan American Games held there last year. The video below is part of its bid promotion.
Mexico City’s Abortion Struggles
When Mexico City’s government made abortion legal last year, it also set out to make it available to any woman who asked for one. That includes the city’s poorest, who for years resorted to illegal clinics and midwives as wealthy women visited private doctors willing to quietly end unwanted pregnancies. But helping poor women gain equal access to the procedure has turned out to be almost as complicated as passing the law, a watershed event in this Catholic country and in a region where almost all countries severely restrict abortions. More from the New York Times.
