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PRESIDENT FELIPE CALDERON'S ADMINISTRATION UNDER PRESSURE TO TAKE EMERGENCY STEPS TO AVERT FOOD CRISIS

• Prices for basic goods increasing
• Administration urged to create strategic food reserve
• Mexico vulnerable because of dependence on imports
• Food sovereignty an issue during May Day celebration
• Administration rules out export controls

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES APPROVES CHANGES TO ANNUAL INFORME; PRESIDENT NO LONGER MUST BE PRESENT IN CONGRESS

• Chaotic addresses in 2006, 2007 prompted changes

REGION DISCUSSES STRATEGY TO ENSURE FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND SECURITY

• Contributions of land and money needed
• Central America on the losing end

WHOLESALE MURDER IN HONDURAN PRISONS CONTINUES AS NINE ARE SLAUGHTERED IN SAN PEDRO SULA AND 18 DIE AT TAMARA

• A fatal move with the best intentions
• Advance warnings; it was inevitable

GENERAL: ONGOING DIPLOMATIC ANTAGONISM BETWEEN ECUADOR AND COLOMBIA FOLLOWING COLOMBIAN ATTACK ON FARC IN ECUADOR

• Political fallout throughout region
• Correa calls on OAS to act regarding killed Ecuadoran
• Colombia: Ecuadoran government too "permissive" with FARC
• Ecuadoran autopsy: four "executions" at attack site

ARGENTINA: FARM PROTESTS FORCE RESIGNATION OF ECONOMY MINISTER

• Lousteau out, Carlos Fernandez in
• Poll: confidence in President Fernandez dropping
• Critics: new economy minister too loyal to president
• Farm-tax protest blockades renewed

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