Honduran de facto authorities announced that Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo Sosa of the right-wing National Party had won the presidency—but resistance leaders claim 70% abstentionism.
Thousands of campesinos blocked highways in Guatemala to press demands for new allocations to the National Lands Fund for renting farmland to be used by more than 100,000 families.
Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council rejected 16 of the 69 parties that submitted candidates for upcoming legislative elections—including the Lavalas Family of ex-president Jean Bertrand Aristide.
Thousands of Uruguayans took to the streets to celebrate the victory of JosĂ© “Pepe” Mujica, a former leader of the Tupamaro urban guerilla group, in a runoff election for the presidency.
Coptic Christian shop owners in the Egyptian town of Farshoot are refusing to reopen their stores until the government compensates them for damages in two days of rioting over the weekend.
An attacker on a motorcycle shot and killed indigenous leader and anti-mining activist Mariano Abarca outside his home in Chicomuselo, in the mountains of southern Mexico’s Chiapas state.
The US Supreme Court vacated a Second Circuit decision that required the Pentagon to release photos of abused detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan.
An Algerian court sentenced in absentia Guantánamo detainee Ahmed Belbacha to 20 years in prison. Belbacha says he fears torture in Algeria and has requested asylum in the US.
Israel’s Knesset unanimously approved a resolution demanding that Argentina extradite those colonels and generals involved in mass killings during the country’s military dictatorship.
After missing work for several days, José Emilio Galindo Robles, the regional director for Radio Universidad de Guadalajara in Ciudad Guzmán, was found dead inside his home.
Our November issue featured the stories “Venezuelan Labor Between Chávez and the Golpistas” by Venezuelan journalist Rafael Uzcategui writing for the Spanish anarchist journal Tierra y Libertad, and “Venezuela: Demarcation Without Land” by JosĂ© Quintero Weir writing for the Caracas… Read moreIndigenous and labor rights in Venezuela: do our readers care?
Police with water cannon fired tear gas and rubber bullets at a protest opposing the World Trade Organization summit that opens this week in Geneva.
