A scandal involving US law enforcement programs to let guns “walk” into Mexico has now widened to include the 2001-2008 administration of former president George W. Bush—after Republican politicians have used the scandal to attack Obama.
Some 300 light automatic rifles and 300,000 5.56-caliber bullets disappeared from a Tegucigalpa warehouse in August or September; they’d been in the custody of a special operations police group.
A US Congress member is asking for the declassification of several US intelligence documents with information on the abduction of children during Argentina’s “dirty war” against suspected leftists.
As many as 600,000 students and their supporters marched in cities across Colombia against proposed legislation which they say will “reduce education to a commodity.”
Haitian police arrested opposition legislative deputy Arnel BĂ©lizaire at the Port-au-Prienc airport as he returned from an official visit to France and then whisked him to the National Penitentiary, sparking protests against President Michel Martelly.
A dispute between the government of right-wing president Ricardo Martinelli and the Ngöbe-Buglé indigenous group flared up again as the National Assembly began to debate changes to the Mining Code.
Mexican officials are having to deny that US agencies were violating Mexican sovereignty by carrying out undercover operations aimed at Mexican drug cartels.
Honduran and international groups are forming an organization to monitor and prevent rights violations in the Lower Aguán Valley, the site of numerous violent land disputes, where dozens of people have been killed over the past two years.
A total of 32 public universities across Colombia have gone on strike against proposed changes to the education system that students and faculty say will lead to privatization. One student was killed in protests in Cali.
About 50 Chilean students and their supporters took over a congressional budget subcommittee’s meeting in Santiago to demand that the government hold a binding plebiscite on their demands.
Activists demanded the withdrawal of the thousands of UN “peacekeepers” in Haiti UN mission and called for the UN to pay compensation for the country’s current cholera epidemic.
The US Congress passed long-delayed neoliberal free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea—despite the vocal opposition of unions and progressive forces in all three countries.
