In a significant setback for Chilean prosecutors, judges in Cañete in the central province of Arauco voted not to convict 17 indigenous Mapuche activists on “terrorism” charges.
President Felipe CalderĂłn’s militarization of the struggle against drug trafficking is “a war from above” largely for the benefit of US interests, according to a letter by Subcommander Marcos.
A US diplomatic cable released by the WikiLeaks group has raised new questions about possible corruption in the de facto regime that ruled Honduras after the June 2009 coup.
Chief US federal district judge JosĂ© FustĂ© sent Puerto Rican Bar Association (CAPR) president Osvaldo Toledo MartĂnez to prison for refusing to pay a $10,000 fine for contempt of court.
Some 5,000 members of Panama’s Ngöbe-BuglĂ© indigenous group held a national protest day against changes to the Mining Code that they said would encourage open-pit mining by foreign companies.
Haiti’s immigration service has issued a diplomatic passport for former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who has lived in exile in South Africa since he was forced from office in 2004.
Some 100 members of Mexican drug gang Los Zetas settled in the northwest Guatemalan city of Cobán by early 2009 under protection from “corrupt” police, a WikiLeaks cable states.
The Mexican daily La Jornada announced it has received some 3,000 US diplomatic cables, which purport to reveal links between Mexico’s narco gangs and Colombia’s FARC guerillas.
Friends of the Women of Juárez wrote US Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano demanding the release of three-year-old Mexican Heidi Frayre to the care of relatives in El Paso, Texas.
A confrontation between police and University of Puerto Rico students at the RĂo Piedras campus in San Juan quickly escalated into what appeared to be the most violent event in two months of protests.
At a massive march against NAFTA and the government’s neoliberal economic policies, leaders of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union called for driving President CalderĂłn out of office.
There were at least eight killings last year in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo LeĂłn “that evidence indicates were the result of unlawful use of lethal force by army and navy officers.”
