The first cases of “swine flu” have just been reported among Amazonian indigenous peoples, raising fears of a devastating contagion among peoples with no immunity to outside diseases.
A majority of readers support the protesters in Iran, while 43% think it is wrong to pick a side and the real enemy is US imperialism.
A majority of readers support the Sufis fighting the fundamentalist Shabab insurgents in Somalia, but do not think the US should arm them.
A majority of our readers think Obama was not in on the coup d’etat in Honduras, but maybe the CIA was anyway.
The three main Honduran labor federations held a march in Tegucigalpa marking the start of an open-ended general strike against the coup-installed de facto government.
Haiti’s President René Préval refused to promulgate a new law raising the minimum wage. prompting workers to shut down the Sonapi factory complex on Port-au-Prince’s northern outskirts.
The Dominican Republic’s National Union of Nursing Services (UNASED) announced that Dominican medical workers will continue a strike that started last week to demand higher wages.
Groups that protest the US ban on travel to Cuba returned to the US without incident after their latest visits, the first since US president Barack Obama took office.
At the South American summit in Quito, Hugo Chávez warned that the “winds of war are beginning to blow” on the continent—a day after accusing Colombian troops of a border incursion.
The five generals who lead the Honduran armed forces made a rare TV appearance to deny the use of “death squad” tactics—days before another protester was assassinated in a stabbing attack.
Iraqi refugees testified and displayed photo evidence at an LGBT community center in Lebanon that US troops participated in detainment and execution of gays.
Greek journalist Takis Michas is being sued by the Panhellenic Macedonian Front over his charges that Greek mercenaries in Bosnia participated in the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
