A coalition of Puerto Rican feminist organizations held a march to the RĂo Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), the site of months of student protests against an $800 tuition surcharge.
The National Ballet of Cuba, under the direction of the renowned Alicia Alonso, marked International Women’s Day with a special performance honoring women heroes of the 1959 Revolution.
Mexican social organizations and human rights groups carried out actions in at least eight states, to demand that the authorities end the murders of women and categorize femicide as a special crime.
Women’s rights organizations marked International Women’s Day with street protests demanding that Central American governments take measures to stop the killings of women.
South Americans celebrated International Women’s Day on the holiday’s 100th anniversary, with actions calling attention to the murders of women and with other forms of violence against women.
Venezuela’s highest court ordered union leader RubĂ©n González released just two days after a judge sentenced him to seven and a half years for instigating a job action and blocking a highway.
Barack Obama expressed “nothing but admiration for President CalderĂłn” and his “war on drugs” at a joint press conference in Washington, DC during the Mexican president’s visit.
Mexico has requested “detailed information” from the US on an operation which reportedly allowed some 2,000 firearms to enter Mexico illegally in an effort to trace the activities of gun smugglers.
Panama’s President Ricardo Martinelli said he will ask legislators to rescind a mining law opponents say would encourage open-pit mining by foreign companies and endanger the environment.
Some 17 Haitian groups have launched a new campaign against the neoliberal economic policies that Haiti has followed under successive governments over the last three decades.
The American Civil Liberties Union has declared the civil and human rights situation in Puerto Rico a “high priority for the organization,” citing “repression against the student movement.”
Upon receiving word that the bodies of her missing family members had been found, hunger-striking activist Marisela Reyes Salazar called on President CalderĂłn to end this “stupid dirty war.”
