Mexican senators said they planned to question officials about President Calderón’s agreement with Barack Obama allowing US agents on a Mexican military base to carry out intelligence work related to the “War on Drugs.”
Student protesters in Chile say they’ll keep up the pressure on the government at least until Sept. 11, the anniversary of the bloody coup that started the 1973-1990 dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
Israeli officials responded harshly and immediately when Honduran president Pepe Lobo announced that his country plans to support statehood for Palestine during the UN General Assembly meeting in September.
Workers at Chile’s Escondida copper mine voted to end a 15-day-old strike despite failing to win their demand for a bonus of 5 million pesos ($10,562). Union officials admitted the members were worn out after two weeks without pay.
Street-fighting erupted in Santiago, with tear-gas and mass arrests, after the government of rightwing president Sebastián Piñera refused to issue permits for student marches, using a decree from the Pinochet era.
Acting on a court order, police destroyed homes that 500 squatters had improvised out of canvas, cardboard and sheet metal when they occupied land near the provincial capital, San Miguel de Tucumán.
Mexican governance secretary Francisco Blake Mora met with more than 160 relatives of people who have been “disappeared”—kidnapped by criminals, by the police or by the military.
The labor and human rights of women workers are reportedly being violated at two factories in northern Honduras owned by the US clothing firm Delta Apparel, Inc.
Four people were killed when provincial police forcibly evicted some 700 families from land they had been occupying in the northwestern Argentine province of Jujuy.
All 44 teachers at a public high school in Colombia’s northern department of Córdoba sought refuge in MonterÃa, the regional capital, after being threatened by a paramilitary group.
The government and the unions representing medical workers for the Social Security Fund signed an agreement ending a strike that the unions had started four days earlier over economic issues.
Activity in the US Congress reflects growing environmentalist opposition to a $450 million pipeline which would carry imported natural gas from the southwest coast to a place near San Juan on the north coast.
