The Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, located in the Urabá region of northwestern Colombia, charged that right-wing paramilitaries are continuing to attack and threaten its members.
Haiti’s Civil Protection agency reports that five people died and 57 were injured when a violent storm hit Port-au-Prince and areas to the south. Camps of displaced earthquake victims were hardest hit.
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner and Haitian prime minister Jean-Max Bellerive met to discuss international efforts to help Haiti’s recovery.
Miami federal district judge William Zloch sentenced former Guatemalan soldier Gilberto Jordán to 10 years in prison for concealing his role in a 1982 massacre when he applied for US citizenship.
After three days of meetings four Haitian political coalitions announced their opposition to the general elections scheduled for Nov. 28.
Mexico’s military announced that four soldiers will be charged with homicide for the killing of two civilians the night of Sept. 5 on the Monterrey-Nuevo Laredo highway in Nuevo LeĂłn.
A group of 12 Chilean activists began an open-ended “massive solidarity fast” to support indigenous Mapuche prisoners who have been carrying out a liquids-only hunger strike since July 12.
Latin America solidarity activist Rev. Lucius Walker, 80, died of a heart attack at his home in Demarest, New Jersey. Walker, a Baptist minister, was also active in the US civil rights movement.
Puerto Rican politicians from across the spectrum praised leftist independence activist Juan Mari Brás, who died at 82 of lung cancer in his home in RĂo Pedras, San Juan.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) made an agreement in principle in Tegucigalpa for a standby loan to the Honduran government. This gives the country immediate access to $196 million.
Military units began carrying out street patrols in Honduran cities, mainly Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, in what the government said was an effort to help the police fight crime.
At least three people suffered serious injuries and 26 were arrested when fighting broke out between striking miners and others at the giant Cananea copper mine in the northern Mexican state of Sonora.
