US Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that it expects to start repatriating Haitian immigrants with criminal records in January, ending a temporary suspension.
One protester was killed and three arrested when Haitian police dispersed residents protesting a dump near the Duvivier neighborhood in Port-au-Prince’s impoverished CitĂ© Soleil section.
Honduran police, soldiers and private guards injured three campesinos and detained 12 during an attempt to evict a family from their home in Coyolito on the Zacate Grande peninsula.
Mexico and Venezuela re both “looking to assert [their] leadership in the region, particularly in Central America,” according to a leaked US embassy cable.
Mexican human rights activist Marisela Escobedo Ortiz was buried in Ciudad Juárez two days after she was shot dead by an unidentified man as she was protesting in front of the state government office.
The governments of Brazil and Argentina announced that they are recognizing Palestine as an independent state within the borders defined in 1967.
Students from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) held a 48-hour strike to oppose plans for an $800 tuition surcharge at the public university beginning on Jan. 1.
Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) announced the preliminary results of the chaotic and sometimes violent presidential and legislative elections held on Nov. 28.
A report by a leading French expert concludes that the cholera outbreak in Haiti originated at a base maintained by UN troops near Mirebalais in the Central Plateau.
Angelica Choc and her lawyers announced a lawsuit in Ontario, Canada, against the Canadian mining company HudBay Minerals Inc. for the murder of Choc’s husband.
Hundreds of campesinos marched in Tegucigalpa to demand that the Honduran government resolve longstanding land conflicts in the Lower Aguán River Valley.
Mexico has the highest rate of violent deaths for women among countries not at war, according to the regional director of the UN Development Fund for Women, Ana GĂĽezmes.
