Brazil signed an agreement with Bolivia to fight cocaine production and trafficking, replacing assistance formerly provided by the US DEA, which was ejected from the country by President Evo Morales in 2008.
Former Argentine general Eduardo Cabanillas was sentenced to life in prison for running the Automotores Orletti secret detention center in Buenos Aires during the period of military rule from 1976-83.
Thousands of members of Black and indigenous groups in Honduras marched on the capital, Tegucigalpa, to demand territorial rights and protest recent repression by the regime of Porfirio Lobo.
Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission finds that 5,397 are reported missing across the country since President Felipe Calderón launched his war on the narco cartels in 2006.
Japan’s Movement for Democratic Socialism asserts: “The Fukushima disaster is not a natural disaster, but one that is politically generated by global capitalism’s promotion of nuclear energy and militarization.”
Greece protested Turkish plans for a nuclear plant in an earthquake zone on the Mediterranean at the EU summit in Brussels. while IAEA inspectors visited a Syrian site where it is suspected nuclear fuel is being produced.
South Korean environmental activists staged an anti-nuclear rally in Seoul, marking the 32nd anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania—and two weeks of the ongoing Fukushima disaster.
Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said concrete injections have failed to stop a leak of highly radioactive water from reactor Number 2 directly into the ocean.
Moammar Qaddafi’s regime rejected a rebel ceasefire offer, as reports emerged that NATO mistakenly bombed a rebel convoy near Brega, killing 13 including four civilian medical personnel.
Militant factions in the Gaza Strip announced that their recently declared ceasefire is over following an overnight Israeli air-strike that killed three leaders of Hamas’ armed wing.
Libya’s rebels, in retreat for a third consecutive day, appealed to Qaddafi for a ceasefire—as they announced the signing of a deal with Qatar to market oil from fields under their control in exchange for weapons.
Security forces again fired on protesters in Syria, as rival pro- and anti-government demonstrators filled the streets of Yemen, and Egyptians again filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square in a rally to “save the revolution.”
