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Rafa XII of equinoXio provides some historical details regarding the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Colombian Professional Football league.

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Repeating Islands notes that “preliminary results from last week’s run-off elections in Haiti indicate that President René Preval’s party won five of 11 contests to fill open Senate seats”, but adds that “there have been…threats from other senators to block the seating…because of the extremely low voter turnout in the run-offs…”

Diaspora blogger Jumbie's Watch comments on news coming out of Trinidad and Tobago - including a vote of no confidence in the Attorney General and the Prime Minister's refusal to apologize for “insensitive remarks he made on the murder of a 10 year old girl.”

Writing at Havana Times, Guillermo Fernandez Ampie examines the Honduran coup d’état, while Repeating Islands reports that “heads of state throughout the Caribbean region have expresses their condemnation of the military coup in Honduras that has removed President Manuel Zelaya from office.”