More than 250 farmers with tractors and work trucks blockaded the entrances to Chihuahua state office buildings to protest the high cost of diesel fuel and lack of opportunity in Mexico’s agricultural sector.
The “Juárez Citizens Command” issued a manifesto setting a deadline for authorities to restore order in the violence-plagued border city before it will begin killing a criminal every day.
Peru’s Energy Ministry announced that Anglo-French Perenco’s Amazon oil pipeline project needs to be “reevaluated” due to falling prices. The project is slated for an area where uncontacted tribes are said to exist.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon hailed the “peaceful climate” in Bolivia during the constitutional referendum—but Facebook removed a group that advocated assassination of President Evo Morales.
President Evo Morales declared an end to the “colonial state” in Bolivia as voters approved his new constitution by a 62% majority, granting unprecedented rights to indigenous peoples.
Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva appealed to Obama to lift the Cuba embargo, while Cuba’s Fidel Castro said “despite [Obama’s] noble intentions,” fundamental contradictions remain in the capitalist system.
On Jan. 21 Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Castro met with former Cuban president Fidel Castro Ruz during a brief visit to Havana. In a column published the same day, Castro said his discussion with Fernández was “intense and interesting,… Read moreCuba: Fidel Castro reappears
At an economic summit in Cartagena with his regional rival, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez denied supporting the FARC guerillas or any other “subversive” activity.
Julio César Ardila Torres, the former mayor of the Colombian oil port of Barrancabermeja, has been found guilty of ordering the 2003 murder of local journalist José Emeterio Rivas by paramilitaries.
Manfred Nowak, UN special rapporteur on torture, called on the Obama administration to prosecute George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld for torture and ill-treatment of detainees at Guantánamo Bay.
President Barack Obama Jan. 26 directed the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider the Bush administration decision that prevented California and 17 other states from setting their own, stricter limits on auto emissions. Obama also directed his administration to move forward… Read moreObama directs EPA to reconsider Bush auto emission policy
For six years, since before the Iraq war began, peace activists in the upstate New York town of Potsdam have held a weekly vigil in front of the village post office. On Jan. 24, they gathered one last time. The… Read morePotsdam peaceniks give Obama a chance
