Thousands of Hondurans demonstrated in a “National Civic Strike” called by teachers’ unions and the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP), a coalition of unions and grassroots organizations.
Thousands of workers marched on the congress building in Mexico City to protest a proposed reform of the labor code they say “intends to finish off collective contracts and make the workers modern slaves.”
Sae-A Trading Co. Ltd, South Korea’s leading apparel manufacturer, is pushing ahead with plans to open a large garment assembly plant near the coastal village of Caracol in Haiti’s agricultural Northeast department.
The number of displaced Haitians living in camps in the Port-au-Prince area after the January 2010 earthquake has now fallen to about 680,000. But those who left the camps haven’t necessarily found better shelter.
Honduran riot police threw a tear gas canister at journalists Lidieth DĂaz and Adolfo Sierra from TV Cholusat Sur (Channel 36) as they were trying to film a protest by striking teachers.
Over 41,000 Colombian judicial workers demonstrated in downtown Bogotá to protest the murders of judicial officers. The protest was called after the murder of Judge Gloria Constanza Gaona.
Some 115,000 Mexicans fled their homes last year because of drug-related crime, and the total number of people displaced by drug violence in Mexico since 2007 has reached about 230,000.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wrote the US Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division asking the agency to conclude an ongoing investigation of alleged abuses by the Puerto Rican police.
Honduran teacher Ilse Ivana Velásquez RodrĂguez died in a Tegucigalpa hospital from injuries she received when riot police attacked a demonstration of thousands of teachers.
Observers said Haiti’s March 20 presidential and legislative runoff elections were relatively calm—at least in comparison to the chaotic first round on Nov. 28.
The US ambassador to Mexico, Carlos Pascual, has resigned following embarrassing revelations about US-Mexican relations, starting with WikiLeaks’ publication of diplomatic cables from the US embassy.
Indigenous Mapuche-Tehuelche organizations and allied groups marched in the western Argentine province of Chubut to support Santa Rosa Leleque community members in their struggle with Benetton.
