Chilean prosecutors ordered the detention of Sgt. Miguel Millacura of the carabineros militarized police in the killing of a teenager who had been walking with his brother to observe late-night protests following the Aug. 24-25 general strike.
Mexican marines shot and killed Gustavo Acosta Luján at his home in Apodaca, Nuevo León, in what appeared to be a botched raid targeting a suspected criminal in a different house in the neighborhood.
Two high-ranking US officials have been removed from their posts in fallout from Operation Fast and Furious, a bungled ATF program that allowed some 2,000 weapons to go from the US to Mexico.
A comparison of the whole genomes of cholera bacteria found in Haiti and in Nepal proves nearly conclusively that Nepalese UN “peacekeepers” were the inadvertent cause of a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 6,000 Haitians.
Dole Food Company has settled with some 5,000 former banana workers in Nicaragua who said their health had been damaged by prolonged and unprotected exposure to the pesticides Nemagon and Fumazone.
Tens of thousands of Chilean workers, students and teachers participated in a 48-hour general strike initiated by the country’s main labor federation to call “for a different Chile.”
Honduran campesino leader Pedro Salgado and his wife, Reina Mejía, are the latest victims in a decade-old struggle for land in the Central American nation’s conflicted Lower Aguán Valley.
A group of men armed with guns wounded seven indigenous campesinos during an hour-long attack on an encampment in the Polochic Valley in the northeastern Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz.
Campesino leader Secundino Ruiz was shot dead as he was leaving a bank in Tocoa in the northern Honduran department of Colón. This was the 12th killing in the Aguán Valley in a week.
Students have occupied some 150 public schools throughout Honduras over the past three weeks, and people are starting to compare the protests to the student movement in Chile.
New global recession fears have South American leaders so worried that pro-US Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is now pushing regional integration with the continent’s left-wing and populist governments.
As protests continue in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital’s mayor reportedly plans to relocate 20,000 earthquake survivors to a small mountain in a dry, sparsely populated area about 25 miles from the city.
