Agents of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) worked with an informant and with Mexican enforcement agents in 2007 to launder millions of dollars for Mexico’s Beltrán Leyva cartel, news reports reveal.
Eight people, including four children, were murdered in the village of Regaderos, in the Lower Aguán Valley, the site of several violent land disputes between campesinos and large landowners.
A series of raids in southern Chile followed the the government’s suggestion that Mapuche activists were responsible for recent major forest fires in the BiobĂo and AraucanĂa regions.
Marco Aurelio Lorenzo, an activist Catholic priest based in western Honduras, has filed a criminal complaint charging that he and his two brothers were tortured by eight police agents the day after Christmas.
Former Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo has filed a 122-page statement calling charges that he “was somehow complicit” in a 1977 massacre of indigenous civilians “baseless and outrageous.”
Dozens of students occupied four radio stations in Chilpancingo, capital of the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero, to publicize their positions on an ongoing conflict at a nearby rural teachers’ college that last month left two students dead.
Efforts to help Haiti recover from a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that devastated the southern part of the country in 2010 have made significant progress, according to the UN and the Haitian government.
Puerto Rico will hold a plebiscite on the island’s status in November—but the questions put before voters appear to benefit Gov. Luis Fortuño’s pro-statehood New Progressive Party.
Center-right Honduran president Pepe Lobo intends to have the country return to Petrocaribe, a program through which Venezuela provides oil to other Caribbean countries at favorable terms.
Alfredo Landaverde, a former adviser to the Honduran government on security and drug trafficking, was shot dead by unknown gunmen on a motorcycle as he was driving in Tegucigalpa.
The government of the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero has arrested a police commander in connection with the Dec. 7 kidnapping of two campesino environmental activists.
The US has sent the Argentine human rights group Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo a fully declassified 1982 memo on the abduction of prisoners’ babies under the 1976-1983 dictatorship.
