The US government is investigating money laundering through the HSBC-Mexico, a subsidiary Europe’s largest bank. The bank is expected to end up paying a fine of more than $1 billion.
More than 1,000 Haitians marched through downtown Port-au-Prince to protest a plan to destroy homes they’ve built on hillsides overlooking the city; many of them lost their previous homes in the 2010 earthquake.
Republicans, Democrats, the NRA, the ATF, the US Attorney in Arizona, the FBI—they all seem to have a hand in the United States’ failure to stop the smuggling of assault weapons to Mexico.
A rapid count shows the PRI’s Enrique Peña Nieto winning with about 38% of the votes, followed by center-left AndrĂ©s Manuel LĂłpez Obrador with almost 32%; ruling party candidate Josefina Vázquez Mota came in third.
In the biggest demonstration so far this school year, Chilean students marched again for free, quality education—and to protest the tricks through which “nonprofit” schools turn a profit.
US generals reportedly met with Paraguayan legislators at the same time that President Fernando Lugo was being removed from office. The topic: building a military base near the border with Bolivia.
Mexicans go on dying in the “drug war,” while in the US the gun lobby tries to blame gun control advocates for the flow of US-purchased assault weapons to the Mexican drug gangs.
The OAS human rights commission reports that eight members of the LGBT community in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero have been murdered since the beginning of the year.
Cintia Yadira Herrera died of heart problems shortly after arriving in northern Honduras on a mass deportation flight arranged by US immigration authorities, who had ignored her complaints of feeling ill.
Some 1,500 workers went on strike for a week to oppose the Costa Rican government’s latest move in its campaign to privatize the country’s commercially important Caribbean ports.
Brazilian soldiers from the UN “stabilization” mission made three attempts to enter part of the State University of Haiti by force, the latest violation of a university space by UN troops.
Leading French cholera expert Dr. Renaud Piarroux thinks the Haitian epidemic could be stopped in months with chlorine and clean water—while the UN and the US media are pushing a dubious vaccination drive.
