OFF TOPIC BUT FUNNY: Obama's Correspondents Dinner Video Nears 7 Million Views.

USA TODAY/ with 18:54 YOUTUBE LINK

   President Obama's 30 April Washington correspondents dinner speech with two mock videos...recorded by CSPAN...has been viewed more than 6.7 million times on YouTube, surpassing his well respected 2008 speech about race relations in Philadelphia.
  "Where are Biggie...and Tupac?"

EL SALVADOR: Obama Visits Slain Bishop Romero's Tomb; Pledges $200 Million Usd To Fight Narcos.

AP/ M.HERALD

   In the final hours of his visit to San Salvador, President Barack Obama paused in a symbolic gesture before the tomb of slain human rights activist Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero.
    Romero was murdered 31 years ago on the orders of an official in El Salvador's U.S.-backed army.
   Romero long condemned the army's 12-year repression that resulted in at least 75,000 deaths.
   He was executed on 24 March, 1980, while conducting a mass in a hospital chapel.
   Obama also pledged $200 million usd for Central America...to battle the widespread narcos.

BOLIVIA: Evo Wants Obama Stripped Of Nobel Peace Prize For Libyan Airstrikes.

Zimbabwe GUARDIAN/

  President Evo Morales is suggesting that the Nobel Committee take back President Obama's 2009  Peace Prize after recent Libyan air strikes.
   Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Russia's Liberal Party, wrote that he will also ask the Nobel Committee to strip Obama of the Peace prize.
    "How can it be that a Nobel Peace Prize laureate leads a group of gangs to attack and invade? That is not part of a defense of human rights or (respect) for the self-determination of peoples," Morales asked the press.

UKRAINE: U.S.Consultants Advise Prime Minister In Presidential Campaign.

GLOBAL POST/
According to the latest opinion poll Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko still trails her rival Viktor Yanukovich by 11 percentage points — 26.8 to 15.6 percent though her campaign is advised by the American political consulting firm "AKPD Message and Media," which helped Barack Obama win the White House.

Relaxed Obama Rules May Doom Cuba Mules.

MIAMI HERALD.COM.
President Bush's 2004 strict travel, money and package restrictions created a cottage industry of mules, illegal couriers who carried money and goods beyond legal limits--for a fee. The mule industry may be on its way out because of Obama's loosening of restrictions on travel, sending money and packages to Cuba.

Obama And US May Dump Polish Missile Defense Shield.

An Editorial...WASHINGTON TIMES.

Poland Expects U.S. Missile Shield Decision By September.

REUTERS.

Poland expects the Obama administration to decide by next month whether it will go ahead with the missile shield installation in central Europe over Russian objections.