Students aren’t the only people questioning Peña Nieto’s favorable coverage in Mexico’s media. US diplomats were secretly suspicious of the media coverage and the opinion polls when he was still a governor, WikiLeaks reveals.
Police agents in Lagos de Moreno in the western state of Jalisco allegedly helped in the kidnapping of three men who were later found murdered. The agents are believed to have been working for a drug gang.
Some 200 Honduran security agents descended on a campesino encampment in an early-morning raid in the northern department of Cortés, destroying homes and shops and arresting 30 people, mostly women.
The Puerto Rican public school system is initiating a program to replace Spanish with English as the language used in teaching most courses, despite warnings from teachers that it won’t work.
At a summit in Bolivia, a special target for Evo Morales and other leaders on the left was the OAS rights organization, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights—despite its record of criticizing the US and its Latin American allies.
Mexico’s largest TV network was paid in 2005 to have its news and entertainment programs influence voters’ perceptions of various politicians, according to documents given to The Guardian—generally favoring the PRI and PAN.
After a 30-year struggle, two indigenous Wounaan collectives in the eastern Panamanian province of Darién received titles from the government to their traditional lands—but clashes over logging in the territory continue.
The Honduran government signed an agreement granting campesinos some 4,000 hectares of farmland in the conflicted north of the country—far less than the government agreed to provide in an accord two years ago.
The Guatemalan government has begun a process virtually closing down the agency in charge of preserving and investigating military and police records from the country’s bloody 1960-1996 civil war.
The body of indigenous teacher and activist TeĂłdulo Santos GirĂłn was found in Mexico’s Michoacán state, the night after he was abducted. He was the 29th murder victim from the rural community of Ostula, site of an ongoing land dispute.
Harassed by student protests, Enrique Peña Nieto of the former entrenched PRI political machine is still favored to win Mexico’s July 1 presidential elections, but polls released at the end of May showed his lead slipping.
In a new assertion of power by Haiti’s officially disbanded army, more than 100 people claiming to be former soldiers marched on Port-au-Prince in uniform; some carried weapons. Haitian police and UN troops made about 50 arrests.
