Peru’s largest labor confederation, the CGTP, condemned “the slaughter ordered by the government of President Alan García,” referring to the repression of indigenous protests in the Amazon.
Thousands of campesinos blocked roads across Guatemala in a nationwide protest to demand that the government carry out agrarian reform and instate a debt forgiveness program.
In one of the largest demonstrations in recent Puerto Rican history, tens of thousands marched to protest plans by Gov. Luis Fortuño to lay off government workers and privatize public services.
On a Southwest tour, Obama administration members laid out their strategy for border security and narcotics control—emphasizing an enforcement partnership with Mexico’s President Calderón.
A march was held in Ciudad Juárez to honor Dr. Manuel Arroyo Galvan, 44, a sociology professor who was shot to death in broad daylight in the latest violent outrage in the border city.
Indigenous protesters armed with spears are seizing raods across Peru’s Amazonas region, as the death toll since Friday’s police attack on a road blockade rose to an estimated 60.
Pakistan’s army said it has arrested senior associates of the radical Islamist cleric Sufi Mohammad, who brokered the failed peace-for-sharia deal in the Swat Valley.
Israeli soldiers shut down a protest in Hebron, declaring a “Closed Military Zone,” as Hillary Clinton denied Israeli claims of a secret deal with Israel allowing settlement expansion.
Baja California announced that Colombian National Police specialists will provide anti-kidnapping training to state law enforcement officials.
Peruvian national police forces staged a violent raid on a group of indigenous people at a peaceful blockade on a road in remote Amazonas region, leaving at least 25 dead and many more injured.
Human rights groups denounced the cultivation of biofuel crops in Colombia, charging their production is linked to land theft and atrocities by paramilitary groups.
Former Colombian Senator Teodolindo Avendaño was sentenced to eight years house arrest for not voting on the measure that allowed the 2006 re-election of President Alvaro Uribe in exchange for favors.
