On Dec. 4 the French wire service AFP reported that with 57% of the votes from Honduras’ Nov. 29 general elections officially counted, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) had revised its earlier turnout estimate down from 61.3% to about 49%…. Read moreHonduras: confusion wins in turnout dispute
Tens of thousands of laid-off Mexican electrical workers and their supporters again took to the streets of the capital to protest President Felipe Calderón’s sudden liquidation of Central Light and Power.
Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, appears to have won a second five-year term in general elections with 61-63.2% of the vote.
Greek police conducted raids in Athens in an effort to avoid a repeat of last year’s violent protests as the first anniversary of the police shooting of Alexis Grigoropoulos approaches.
A Pakistani judge demanded the Interior Ministry reply to a petition requesting disclosure on the activities of Blackwater in the country, alleging a corporate role in the relentless terror attacks.
Sudan hosts more than 66,000 Eritrean refugees, the first of whom arrived in 1968 during the war of independence against Ethiopia. They say they now fear persecution in Eritrea and refuse repatriation.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon “expressed his dismay at the continuation of demolitions, evictions and the installment of Israeli settlers in Palestinian neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem.”
Egypt has become a police state where citizens receive no protection from torture, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) charges in a new report.
This year in Peru, government plans to privatize indigenous lands to oil companies in preparation for the new FTA sparked a popular uprising. Journalist Bill Weinberg reports back Dec. 6 in Oakland, CA.
The US has transfered four detainees from Guantánamo Bay to three European countries: Italy, France and Hungary. Two of the former detainees will stand trial in Italy.
Former US soldier Steven Green challenged the law used to convict him in civilian court for his role in the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family in Mahmudiya.
Opposition Afghan member of parliament Malalai Joya warns, “If Barack Obama heralds an escalation of the war, he will betray his own message of hope and deepen my people’s pain.”
