The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) has launched an emergency drive for disaster relief after torrential rains caused massive and deadly flooding.
“I don’t want Afghanistan-style elections for my country,” said ousted Honduran President Mel Zelaya, as resistance leaders pledged not to allow polling in their communities.
With the collapse of the US-brokered political deal in Honduras, Obama is now in effect siding with the de facto regime—in contrast to nearly all Latin American governments.
A Colombian court finds that the new agreement for US military bases in the country must be approved by legislators, as a Pentagon document says the deal allows “full spectrum operations.”
The US and OAS are divided on whether to recognize the Honduran elections after the collapse of the Washington-brokered deal to solve the political crisis in the Central American country.
A new report by the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights details “extensive and systematic” rights violations faced by thousands of political prisoners in Eritrea.
Giant swastikas appeared on the walls of the synagogue in Dresden, Germany, on the eve of the Kristallnacht anniversary. The Special Commission on Right-wing Extremism is investigating.
Coverage of IAPA’s annual meeting in Buenos Aires focused on legal measures limiting press freedoms in populist regimes, but use of terror against the media is escalating in US allies such as Mexico.
Some 200 indigenous people have gathered at the settlement of Salvación, the local base for Hunt Oil in the rainforest region of southeast Peru, in an ongoing occupation to halt the company’s operations.
The neo-Nazi organization White Justice has been preparing terrorist attacks and abductions of police officers and “highly positioned Jews” in the Czech Republic, local media report.
Paraguay’s President Fernando Lugo fired the head of the armed forces two days after he sacked the commanders of the army, navy and air force amid rumors of a coup.
Seven Yanomami Indians in Venezuela have died from an outbreak of suspected “swine flu” in the last two weeks. Another 1,000 Yanomami are reported to have caught the virulent strain of flu.
