Central American militaries are the main source of the Mexican cartels’ heavy weapons, the US embassy in Mexico wrote in a confidential 2009 cable released by the WikiLeaks.
Two European companies have backed out of Honduran carbon trading and biofuel deals after an international campaign around allegations of human rights abuses in the Lower Aguán Valley.
A group of Mapuche rights activists interrupted Easter mass at Santiago’s Metropolitan Cathedral to call for the release of four Mapuche prisoners who have been on hunger strike for more than a month.
A federal judge in Argentina sentenced Gen. Reynaldo Bignone, the last president in the country’s 1976-1983 military regime, to life in prison for crimes against humanity.
Workers at a Haitian telephone company privatized last year went on strike to demand a full 36 months’ salary in compensation for their impending layoffs.
A report released by the government’s National Council to Prevent Discrimination (Conapred) showed a widespread perception of violence and discrimination in Mexican society, especially against women.
A meeting between the Honduran government and teachers’ union representatives in Tegucigalpa seemed to be heading towards a settlement of a month-long national strike by 60,000 teachers.
A federal jury in El Paso, Texas, acquitted Cuban-born former CIA “asset” Luis Posada Carriles of 11 counts of fraud and obstruction of justice, handing US prosecutors their latest defeat in the case.
Popular singer Michel (“Sweet Micky”) Martelly defeated fellow right-winger Mirlande Hyppolite Manigat in the race for Haiti’s presidency—but real power still lies with the multinational Interim Haiti Recovery Commission.
William Brownfield, US assistant secretary of state for international narcotics, admitted the architects of the hemispheric drug war were wrong in assuming the problem “could be resolved quickly with an aggressive campaign.”
Recently declassified internal documents show that Chiquita had a much closer relation with leftist rebels and rightwing paramilitaries than Chiquita has admitted in the past.
As many as 1.5 million unionists, students and teachers demonstrated in various cities to protest a free trade agreement (FTA) with the US and proposed changes in the education system.
