A state of emergency has been declared in Ecuador as the National Police launched a rebellion over cuts to their benefits. President Rafael Correa, who was assaulted by police, warned of a coup attempt.
Indigenous organizations from Peru, Bolivia and Brazil met in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, and issued a statement declaring a “state of emergency” throughout the Amazon due to industrial mega-projects.
In the village of AscensiĆ³n, in northern Mexico’s Chihuahua state, some 300 residents beat to death two 17-year-old boys who reportedly had kidnapped a 17-year-old girl.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry strongly protested two NATO air-raids in North Waziristan over the weekend, in which some 30 fighters apparently belonging to the Haqqani network were killed.
Several thousand Israeli settlers and supporters celebrated to mark the end to a 10-month moratorium on new construction in their West Bank enclavesāas deadly unrest rocked Jerusalem.
A protest was held in Albuquerque, NM, demanding police intensify their search for a culprit in the mass grave discovered at West Mesa on the outskirts of the city last year.
Ciudad JuƔrez police destroyed a house that had been occupied for 40 years by a family at Lomas de Poleo, a community built on contested lands on the outskirts of the border city.
The National Front of Popular Resistance and other organizations protested the participation of the Honduran de facto president, Porfirio Lobo, in the sessions of the UN General Assembly in New York.
A general strike shut down the Peruvian highland city of Cusco after police repression of campesino protests against the mega-scale Majes-Siguas II irrigation project left one dead.
Top FARC commander Jorge BriceƱo SuĆ”rez AKA “Mono Jojoy” was killed in an airborne raid by Colombian government forces in the latest blow against the guerilla organization.
Federal agents searched homes of anti-war activists in Chicago and Minneapolis in an investigation of possible links with the FARC and PFLP “terrorist organizations.”
Organized crime is widely suspected in the slaying of Angelo Vassallo, the environmentally conscious mayor of the Italian coastal town of Pollica.
