Statistic from the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives indicate that a total of 70% of nearly 30,000 illegal guns the Mexican government seized in 2009 and 2010 came from the US.
Campesino organizations from the Lower Aguán Valley marched in Tegucigalpa to protest the killings of Aguán campesinos and to demand that the government keep its land distribution promises.
Four Mapuche activists imprisoned in Chile’s central AraucanĂa region have ended a liquids-only hunger strike they started on March 15 to protest convictions in what they considered an unfair trial.
WikiLeaks is releasing 1,918 previously unpublished diplomatic cables concerning Haiti to the weekly newspaper Haïti Liberté—the first revealing the details of US pressure to keep Haiti out of the Venezuela-led PetroCaribe program.
The Guatemalan government is planning not to honor a year-old order from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR, or CIDH in Spanish) to suspend operations at the Marlin gold mine in the western department of San Marcos, according to… Read moreGuatemala: government said to OK Goldcorp mine
The government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner finally agreed to negotiate seriously with Qom (Toba) protesters after 16 community members started an open-ended hunger strike in Buenos Aires.
Mexican soldiers raided the home of casino magnate and centrist politician Jorge Hank Rhon and claimed to find a large arsenal, possibly intended for the drug cartels.
US Homeland Security is extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians for another 18 months, but it continues to deport “criminal” Haitians, exposing them to life-threatening dangers.
Armed with machetes and knives, Haitian national police and local officials destroyed some 200 tents in a Port-au-Prince camp set up by people left homeless in last year’s earthquake.
Some 500 people marched in Guadalajara to demand that the federal and state governments honor their commitments to protect land that is sacred to the Wixárika (Huichol) indigenous group.
Thousands of Hondurans gathered at Tegucigalpa’s ToncontĂn International Airport to greet former president Manuel (“Mel”) Zelaya (2006-2009) as he returned from a 16-month exile.
Two Chilean Mapuche prisoners were admitted to a hospital after 72 days of a liquids-only hunger strike. Corrections authorities denied that the prisoners’ lives were in danger.
