The Honduran army placed military vehicles on the airstrip in Tegucigalpa to prevent President Mel Zelaya from landing—but the army’s top lawyer admitted that the military coup was illegal.
Honduras’ new foreign minister Enrique Ortez dissed world leaders who reject his coup-installed regime in contemptuous terms—calling Barack Obama a “little black man who knows nothing.”
Meeting in Washington, the OAS again demanded the immediate return of Mel Zelaya to power in Honduras—while Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega said the Honduran military is preparing a “blood-bath.”
Salvatore Mancuso, ex-commander of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), presented prosecutors with the names of 31 high-ranking military and police officers who collaborated in massacres.
Social organizations in El Salvador denounced the disappearance of Gustavo Marcelo Rivera, an anti-mining leader from the town of San Isidro, fearing a political motive.
Peru has approved Anglo-French Perenco’s contract to drill for oil in the Amazon—in the wake of a wave of unrest over government develop plans in the region that left at least 30 dead.
Some 4,000 US Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province—a remote area that is at the center of the country’s opium cultivation.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has dropped high-profile workplace raids that marked the Bush years—but so-called “gang” raids continue, with over 100 arrested in North Texas last week.
The Israeli Supreme Court ordered the IDF to refile indictments on more serious charges against a soldier and an officer accused of shooting a blindfolded prisoner with a rubber bullet.
At least 10 militants were killed in another presumed US drone strike on Pakistan’s tribal areas. There have been an estimated 35 US strikes since last August, killing over 340 people.
President Evo Morales lashed out at President Obama a day after the US ended trade benefits, saying Bolivia is not doing enough to combat coca cultivation of coca.
José Miguel Insulza, secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), gave a grim assessment July 2 of diplomatic efforts to restore the ousted president of Honduras, warning that it would be “very hard” to head off a more… Read moreHonduras: de facto regime intransigent; US stance equivocal
