LatinNews Daily Report - 22 June 2012

POLITICS | Colombia's Garzón remains in an induced coma. On 21 June the medical team of the Reina Sofía clinic in Bogotá that is treating Vice-President Angelino Garzón told reporters that he remains stable after suffering a thrombosis on 18 June. The vice-president was operated on within three hours of the thrombosis and has remained sedated ever since, with a catheter measuring pressure inside his brain. Doctors will not wake up Garzón until the catheter registers a decrease in pressure in the midbrain, where the thrombosis took place.

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