Stories for July 23rd 2006
Castro, Chavez visit “Che's” home
Seemingly unconcerned about an Argentine request to allow a Cuban doctor out of the island to visit her children in Argentina, Cuban leader Fidel Castro yesterday spent his third day in Cordoba province by taking Venezuelan ally Hugo Chavez on an emotional pilgrimage to the boyhood home of Ernesto “Che” Guevara.
Sexy Santiago: “Coffee with legs”
North Americans take their coffee with milk or sugar. Europeans sometimes add chocolate, and the Irish have been known to add a healthy dose of whiskey to their morning or evening beverage. In Chile, however, coffee often comes with legs (café con piernas).
Family remembers Brazilian slain by London police
Family and friends of a Brazilian man who was mistaken by London police officers for a terrorist and killed inside a subway station in this capital gathered Saturday at the site of the tragedy on the one-year anniversary of his death.
Aerolineas del Sur to Fly to Buenos Aires
Chile's Aerolineas del Sur (AS) is opening nine new routes, including Buenos Aires, despite high oil prices and company internal rifts.
Israel begins ground offensive in Lebanon
On the Israel-Lebanon border tanks, bulldozers and armoured personnel carriers knocked down a fence and barrelled over the border yesterday as some 2,000 Israeli forces stepped up a small-scale ground offensive into southern Lebanon to try to root out Hezbollah bunkers and destroy hidden rocket launchers.
