The right-wing hate circuit is reaping a windfall from the “Swine Flu” scare. Talk radio hosts Michael Savage and Jay Severin both take the opportunity to contagion-bait “illegal aliens.”
Turkish warplanes again bombed PKK strongholds in northern Iraq, days after a presumed PKK bomb blast killed nine soldiers in Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakır province.
Lawyers for two Guantánamo Bay detainees captured as juveniles called for their release—the same day the UN Security Council held an open meeting on children in armed conflict.
Spanish judge Baltazar Garzón announced he will initiate an investigation into torture allegations at Guantánamo Bay made by four former prisoners held at the facility.
President Obama reaffirmed his position that the controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding amounts to torture and defended his decision to ban use of the technique.
The Mexican military is failing to hold its members accountable for human rights abuses, according to a report released this week by Human Rights Watch.
Peru's Supreme Court revoked the pardon of ex-dictator Alberto Fujimori, ordering him back to prison. His supporters in Congress are drafting a law to make the pardon permanent, but this is on dubious constitutional grounds and violates international human rights treaties. Meanwhile, survivors of the Fujimori-era "dirty war" continue to seek justice for the crimes of that period. One campaign is to block right-wing candidate Daniel Urresti, accused in the assassination of journalist Hugo Bustíos, from running for mayor of Lima. (Photo: Diario Uno)
The mothers of three young women who were tortured, raped, and brutally murdered in Ciudad Juárez, México, in 2001 testified before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Santiago, Chile.
Caracas has recalled its ambassador from Lima in response to Peru’s decision to grant political asylum to wanted Venezuelan opposition leader Manuel Rosales.
Bolivian authorities say the dismantling of a commando made up mainly of foreign mercenaries could lead to the people behind around a dozen different attacks carried out since 2006 in Santa Cruz.
Miners blocked roads and port facilities in Mexico to protest the firing of hundreds of striking workers at the giant Cananea copper mine in northern Sonora state.
In a ceremony in Managua, Nicaraguan National Police director Aminta Granera and US ambassador Robert Callahan signed an agreement making Nicaragua a member of the Mérida Initiative.
