The Caribbean
Haiti: students arrested in new protests
Haitian riot police clashed with students occupying campus buildings in Port-au-Prince in solidarity with workers demanding a minimum wage hike.
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Central America
Guatemala: charge nine in attorney’s murder
Guatemalan and UN authorities arrested nine suspects in the murder of attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg. The search for the “intellectual authors” is ongoing, authorities said.
The Andes
VRAE: Ashaninka arm against narco-senderistas
Self-defense committees in indigenous communities of Peru’s conflicted ApurĂmac and Ene River Valley (VRAE) received 400 rifles from the army to fight “narco-terrorist” groups operating in the zone.
Africa
Great powers fight in Somalia?
The same day a US Special Forces helicopter raid reportedly killed a Shabab insurgent leader in Somalia, residents at the southern village of Erile reported a second chopper raid by French forces
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: new Bagram rules “step in wrong direction”?
Human rights activists reacted to disclosures that the US government is planning to introduce measures to give inmates at Afghanistan’s notorious Bagram prison the chance to challenge their detention.
Palestine
West Bank: IDF suppress anti-wall protests again
Israeli soldiers used tear gas against Friday anti-wall protests in the West Bank villages of Bilin and Nilin.
Palestine
Israeli forces invade Gaza Strip again
Several Israeli military vehicles entered the Gaza Strip near al-Bureij refugee camp, according to local Palestinian sources.
Central America
Honduras: students protest plans for draft
Thousands of students marched in the northwestern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula to protest plans by the coup-installed regime to reinstitute compulsory military service.
Central America
Honduras: “mixed signals” on US aid
The State Department announced that the US is canceling of all non-humanitarian aid to the de facto regime in Honduras—but “humanitarian” aid is apparently to continue.
Central America
Guatemala: residents dispute Goldcorp charges
The Canadian mining company Goldcorp Inc is continuing to press charges against five indigenous Mam in connection with a June incident in which protesters set equipment on fire.
The Amazon
Ecuador: new delay in Chevron Amazon suit?
An Ecuadoran judge has recused himself from a case brought against Chevron by Amazonian indigenous groups after the company released videos allegedly incriminating him as biased.
The Amazon
Peru: indigenous leaders go to court to block Amazon oil concession
Peru’s indigenous alliance AIDESEP brought suit before the country’s Constitutional Tribunal to halt an oil concession in a vast area of the Amazon designated as Block 67.