At least five Central American immigrants were forcibly removed from a freight train by about 10 armed men wearing hoods in Veracruz state, according to two immigrants who managed to escape.
Tens of thousands of Chilean students, parents and teachers took to the streets in the latest protest against the privatized education system set up under the 1973-1990 Pinochet dictatorship.
Five Zenú indigenous people were killed in the Lower Cauca region June 24-26 in the communities of La 18 and La Unión-Pato in Zaragoza municipality, according to the Colombian Ombudsperson’s Office.
The Mexican military has taken responsibility for 44 cases of human rights violations since December 2006, when President Calderón ordered soldiers into the fight against drug trafficking.
The distribution of international aid after the devastating January 2010 earthquake in southern Haiti has been slow and in some ways counterproductive, according to a UN report.
Thousands of Haitian peasants marched to demand food sovereignty, the restoration of the environment and the development of agriculture “adapted to the reality of our country.”
Obama and congressional leaders “are within striking distance of a deal” to ratify free trade accords with Colombia, Panama and South Korea, says Chamber of Commerce president Thomas Donohue.
More than 65 women have been murdered so far this year in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León. The victims included pregnant women and nine underage girls; the majority were sexually abused.
Tens of thousands of students, teachers and supporters protested Chile’s education policies with a huge demonstration in Santiago that the press called “the most massive march since the return of democracy” in 1990.
More than 5,000 agricultural workers blocked the Trans-Amazonian highway in the northern Brazilian state of Pará to push demands for land, government aid and an end to violence against activists.
Haitians left homeless by the January 2010 earthquake demonstrated in Port-au-Prince to demand action on the housing situation and an end to forced evictions from the displaced persons camps.
US cables released by WikiLeaks show that “[t]he US embassy in Haiti worked closely with factory owners…to aggressively block a paltry minimum wage increase for Haitian assembly zone workers” in 2009.
