Mexico’s President Felipe CalderĂłn has been advising the US on how to fight the influence of leftist Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, according to a secret US embassy cable.
The US government hopes to develop a closer relationship with the Mexican military as a result of Mexico’s “war on drugs” and international humanitarian operations, according to US diplomatic cables.
About 5,000 activists marched in front of the US Army’s Fort Benning base in Columbus, Georgia, in the 20th annual protest against the US Army School of the Americas (SOA).
Some 500 Honduran soldiers and police agents reportedly occupied the regional office of the National Agrarian Institute (INA) in ColĂłn department, apparently in a search for arms.
Former Cuban president Fidel Castro Ruz announced that the Cuban government was sending “300 doctors, nurses and healthcare technicians” to Haiti to help fight a cholera epidemic there.
Thousands of Haitians took to the streets to protest what they said were delays, confusion, irregularities, violence and outright fraud in presidential and legislative elections.
Large, militant protests against the presence of United Nations troops in Haiti broke out in Hinche in the Central Plateau and Cap-HaĂŻtien on the northern coast.
The Cuban Communist Party released a draft economic program for discussion in the upcoming party Sixth Congress, calling for relative autonomy for state-owned enterprises.
Haitian media organizations released a report on the “cash for work” temporary job program aid agencies set up after the earthquake, finding it fails to provide temporary relief.
Following a wave of ecologist protests, Costa Rica’s congress unanimously approved revisions to the Mining Code that would ban open-pit mining of heavy metals in future projects.
Some 15,000 protesters blocked access to the Chamber of Deputies in Mexico City to demand smaller allocations for the security forces in the budget and more for social development.
Students from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) slowed traffic in and out of San Juan when they demonstrated in a major highway to protest plans for raising tuition by $800 in January.
