The Supreme Court quashed the convictions of two Mapuche prisoners for attempted homicide of police agents; the prisoners had protested their convictions with a 60-day fast.
The Port-au-Prince chief prosecutor Jean Renel SĂ©natus was fired after he refused to arrest 36 Martelly opponents, including three lawyers who challenged the president’s record.
Spanish national Angel Francisco Carromero gets four years in the automobile accident that killed well-known dissident Oswaldo Payá—but Cuba and Spain may make a deal.
With “model cities” rejected by the Supreme Court in Honduras, proponents are looking to take the neoliberal scheme to Jamaica—and maybe even to Greece.
Thousands marched in Santiago to demand respect for the rights of Chile’s indigenous peoples, while nine Mapuche prisoners maintained a hunger strike.
Hundreds of federal and state police ended student occupations at three teachers’ colleges in the southwestern Mexican state of Michoacán, arresting 176.
US officials suspect that organized crime was behind an attack by Mexican federal police on a US embassy car on a road south of Mexico City. The police say it was just a mistake.
A right-wing Spanish politician with a history of speeding went on trial for allegedly causing a car accident in which the well-known Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá was killed.
Five Mapuche prisoners began a hunger strike on Oct. 1 in Temuco, joining four Mapuche prisoners who have been on hunger strike in Angol since Aug. 27.
The Honduran Supreme Court ruled that legislation creating autonomous regions known as “Model Cities” is unconstitutional. President Lobo expects to go ahead with the project anyway.
A series of demonstrations that started in Cap-Haïtien to protest rising food prices and alleged government corruption continued in various cities—including Brooklyn, NY.
Unidentified assailants gunned down Public Ministry prosecutor Eduardo Manuel DĂaz less than two full days after the similar murder of activist attorney Antonio Trejo.
