Latin American leaders, writers and activists considered Oct. 15 an historic event, because of its global scope—and because of the unusual leading role of a movement based in the United States.
Thousands of Latin Americans joined the global day of action against the current economic system on Oct. 15.
Firearms Mexican police seized last April at the home of an alleged drug trafficker in Ciudad Juárez turn out to be among the 2,000 weapons that reached Mexico in the ATF’s bungled Operation Fast and Furious.
Right-wing Puerto Rican governor Luis Fortuño is scrambling to control damage from a report by the US Justice Department condemning unconstitutional conduct by the island’s police force.
Chanting “This has to change,” some 200 Haitians marked World Day for Decent Work with a march to the industrial park where most of Port-au-Prince’s low-wage assembly plants are located.
Chile’s militarized carabineros police used water cannons and tear gas to stop an unauthorized march by student strikers one day after talks between the government and the students broke off.
The AFL-CIO has initiated a “call-in day” Oct. 4 against the pending US free trade agreement with Colombia, and similar deals with South Korea and Panama. Obama is expected to send the Colombia FTA for approval to Congress in the coming weeks.
Honduran police discovered an illegal shipment of arms from the US in Puerto CortĂ©s, the country’s main port, in the violence-plagued north, torn by land conflicts as well increasing activity by drug smugglers and criminal networks.
Haitian President Michel Martelly’s latest choice for prime minister has been an assistant to former US president Bill Clinton, who is already being referred to in political circles as the de facto “governor of Haiti.”
Three Port-au-Prince apparel factories fired a total of six members of a new local of the Textile and Garment Workers Union (SOTA) little more than a week after the union announced its formation.
Managers at two factories in northern Honduras owned by the US clothing firm Delta Apparel, Inc. are continuing to threaten women employees suffering from work-related injuries, according to the Honduran Women’s Collective (CODEMUH).
Between 200 and 600 soldiers and national police agents reportedly raided the campesino community of Rigores in Honduras’ conflicted Lower Aguán Valley, breaking into homes, destroying belongings and hitting both adults and children.
