“The doors of the future are wide open,” Hugo Chávez shouted from the presidential balcony after voters narrowly approved a referendum ending term limits and potentially allowing him to remain in office for life.
A court in La Araucania, Chile, charged indigenous Mapuche activist Miguel Angel Tapia Huenulef under the country’s Anti-terrorism Law after explosives were reportedly found in a police raid of his home.
The Collective Against Extreme Exploitation (LKP) in Guadeloupe broke off negotiations to end the general strike that has paralyzed the island after the French government refused to meet their demands.
Protests continue in Haiti over the barring of the leftist Lavalas Party from upcoming senatorial elections, while Swiss authorities say they will return assets of former “president for life” Jean-Claude Duvalier.
Following a campaign that included sit-ins in government offices, teachers in Honduras began an open-ended strike to demand months of back pay last week. The government has agreed to negotiations.
A team of gunmen in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco opened fire on the home of a state police officer and his extended family, killing 12 people, including six children.
Peru’s President Alan García said the government will auction rights to build a new pipeline to connect the massive Camisea gas field in the Amazon region to Chimbote on the country’s north coast.
Bolivian President Evo Morales flew to Moscow to discuss cooperation in the energy sector—just as a scandal involving bribery and murder is shaking the state hydrocarbons company YPFB.
Neo-Nazis and anti-fascist counter-demonstrators clashed with riot police and each other in the German city of Dresden on the 64th anniversary of the 1945 Allied bombardment.
Police clashed with protesters in several Turkish cities as Kurds marched in defiance of a ban to mark the 10th anniversary of the capture of a Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the separatist PKK.
A team of British officials flew into Guantánamo Bay to visit Binyam Mohamed, who has refugee status in the UK and is one of 41 Gitmo detainees on hunger strike, and one of 35 who are being force-fed.
Yemen’s government denied reports that it released a large group of al-Qaeda suspects from prison—after the country’s al-Qaeda franchise announced a new leadership including ex-Gitmo detainees.
