The Mexican government is violating its own laws on genetically modified organisms (GMO) in the way it handles experimental corn crops, according to a complaint by Greenpeace.
Honduran campesino Henry Roney DĂaz was killed when soldiers, police and private guards tried to remove campesinos occupying an estate in the Aguán River Valley in the northern department of ColĂłn.
Popular Haitian singer Michel Martelly (“Sweet Micky”) was sworn in as his country’s 56th president amid a blackout in the capital—after a failed effort to amend the Constitution to allow presidents two consecutive terms.
166,000 homeless Haitians are threatened with eviction from their displaced persons camps while the Clinton Bush Fund spends $2 million building a luxury hotel.
From Chile to Mexico, Latin American May Day marches focused on demands for wage increases and for fighting the high cost of living following recent jumps in food and fuel prices.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) hosted a high-publicity fact-finding delegation in San Juan to highlight human rights abuses in Puerto Rico, finding that that a “culture of fear” inhibits free speech on the island.
QuetzalcĂłatl Leija Herrera, a prominent Guerrero LGBT activist, was found dead near the main plaza in Chilpancingo, the state capital. He had been beaten to death, in what prosecutors call “a homophobic hate crime.”
Tens of thousands of people participated in a silent “March for Peace With Justice and Dignity” in Mexico City to call for an end to the US-backed militarization of the fight against drug trafficking.
A new United Nations report agrees with most of the conclusions of Haitian and foreign observers who blame the deadly cholera outbreak on bad sanitation practices at a base operated by UN troops.
Far-right Cuban activist Orlando Bosch died in Miami at the age of 84. Accused in a number of terrorist actions against Cuba, he denied he was involved in a string of 1997 attacks on hotels in Havana.
The “international community” is pressuring Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council to change 18 questionable decisions in the Parliament race—as presidential candidate “Sweet Micky” Martelly is accused of intimidating journalists.
A leading Mexican feminist, Marcela Lagarde, says President Felipe CalderĂłn’s militarization of the fight against drug trafficking has increased the level of violence against women.
