The CIA has released the full text of a 2008 report on the 2001 downing of a civilian plane in Peru, finding numerous procedural violations that “CIA officers knew of and condoned.”
At least eight people died and two disappeared when Hurricane Tomas struck Haiti; the cholera epidemic continues, and health experts fear the flooding from Tomas may help it spread.
A group of Costa Rican environmental activists held a “Cultural Festival for Life” to conclude a hunger strike they began on Oct. 8 against the projected Las Crucitas open-pit gold mine.
Guatemala’s Environment Ministry has filed a criminal complaint against the local subsidiary of the Goldcorp mining giant for possible pollution of the Quivichil River.
Voters chose Dilma Rousseff of the leftist Workers Party (PT) to be Brazil’s 36th president in a runoff election. Rousseff, who takes office in January, will be the country’s first woman president.
The Mexican government announced that it had put two federal police agents “at the disposal” of officials investigating the shooting of a college student near a university campus in Ciudad Juárez.
Representatives of Honduran unions and grassroots movements agreed to schedule a series of actions over the next two weeks around the national minimum wage and other labor issues.
Hundreds of protesters marched on the United Nations military base at the city of Mirebalais in the Central Plateau, charging that the Nepalese troops stationed there had caused a major outbreak of cholera.
There have been over 200 confirmed deaths so far from a cholera epidemic that apparently broke out in the Lower Artibonite River region of Haiti, local authorities report.
Three Costa Rican environmental activists marked two weeks on hunger strike against the projected Las Crucitas open-pit gold mine in San Carlos in the north of the country.
Thousands of Argentines rallied in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires to protest the killing of the student Mariano Ferreyra during a demonstration the day before.
Two unidentified men shot and killed Catarino Torres Pereda, general secretary of the Citizen Defense Committee (Codeci), at the group’s office in Tuxtepec in the southern state of Oaxaca.
