Protesters called off their roadblocks in the Peruvian province of Carabaya as the government announced a suspension of the Inambari hydro-compex—after the project’s contractor expressed concerns about regional unrest.
Walter Aduviri, leader of the Aymara protest movement in Peru’s southern Andean region of Puno, is under siege in the studios of Lima’s Panamericana TV station, with police surrounding the building to carry out arrest orders.
Officials in Peru this week denied claims by UK-based Survival International that the government plans to abolish the Murunahua Territorial Reserve, created in 1997 to protect “uncontacted” bands of the Murunahua and other native peoples.
A court in St. Petersburg, Russia, sent two members of a neo-Nazi group behind bars for life for the murder of several African immigrants, North Caucasians and anti-fascist activists in St. Petersburg and Moscow over the past several years.
A NATO official said the alliance is considering air-strikes on Libya’s ancient Roman ruins of Leptis Magna, sparking statements of concern from the UN. Qaddafi’s forces have already reportedly shelled the World Heritage Site of Ghadamès.
Libyan rebels broke through the Qaddafi-loyalist forces besieging Misrata and once again advanced toward Tripoli—despite complaints that NATO had failed to back their drive to break the siege with air power.
Al-Qaeda leader Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, said to be behind the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, was killed at a checkpoint in Somalia by forces who didn’t realize he was the most wanted man in Africa.
A “peace caravan,” which has spent a week travelling through Mexico to protest against drug-related violence and the “war on drugs,” crossed into the US at El Paso, where protest leader Javier Sicilia called for a halt to the Merida Initiative.
After a suspension to allow for presidential elections to take place in the Puno region, local Aymara activists announced that they will resume their strike civil strike indefinitely, and immediately erected roadblocks on the main highway to Bolivia.
Dozens of armed Israeli settlers attacked residents of Qusra village in the northern West Bank, as Israeli troops broke up a an anti-settlement rally in Iraq Burin and conducted raids across the West Bank.
Nearly 3,000 have crossed the border from Syria into Turkey as the Syrian army moves to put down an uprising in the northern town of Jisr al-Shughur. Friday protests meanwhile rocked some 50 cities and towns across the country.
As deadly repression continues to mount in Yemen, CIA director Leon Panetta told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the US has not halted cooperation with President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s embattled regime.
