Students protesting an $800 tuition surcharge imposed this year at the University of Puerto Rico marked the beginning of the spring semester with a two-hour march and rally.
Jean-Michel François, the son of exiled former Haitian police chief Joseph Michel François, was killed in the northern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula.
A Haitian national with symptoms of cholera died in Haiti just two days after his Jan. 20 deportation from Florida by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
Student strikers at the University of Puerto Rico continued using mass civil disobedience to push their demand that the university drop an $800 tuition surcharge, with campuses occupied.
The main Mexican intelligence agency “has allowed [US government] officers to interview foreign nationals detained at Mexican immigration detention centers,” says a cable released by WikiLeaks.
Hundreds started a fast in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, to mark the first anniversary of the Jan. 30 massacre of 15 youths in the city’s Villas de Salvárcar neighborhood.
Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) has announced its new schedule for the long-delayed runoffs for the presidency and for many legislative seats.
The US is planning for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) to remain in the country through 2013, according to a confidential US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks.
While media attention remains focused on the return of former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier to Haiti, disputes over the Nov. 28 presidential and legislative elections continue.
At a Haiti press conference, ex-dictator “Baby Doc” Duvalier expressed “profound sorrow” on behalf of his “compatriots who legitimately claim that they were victims” of his regime.
UN human rights commissioner Navi Pillay called on Mexico to determine whether there was complicity by authorities in the mass kidnapping of some 40 Central American immigrants.
Some 7,000 Mexicans have participated in a program through which the Colombian government trains Mexican soldiers and police in techniques for fighting drug cartels.
