Haitian students announced they are planning to file complaints with international agencies about a campus invasion involving soldiers from the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti.
Honduras’ National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP) said it had collected 1,019,765 signatures on petitions calling for a constituent assembly to rewrite the country’s 1982 Constitution.
Honduran president Porfirio (“Pepe”) Lobo Sosa announced on that he had signed an agreement with the education workers’ unions ending a 26-day strike by some 55,000 teachers.
Guanajuato governor Juan Manuel Oliva RamÃrez announced that the state government would soon release seven women who had been jailed on charges of “homicide in the case of close relatives.”
In the largest protest to date by Haitians left homeless by the massive January earthquake, hundreds of people marched in Port-au-Prince to demand immediate measures to provide decent housing.
Honduran police arrested some 150 people while using tear gas and water cannons to disperse a demonstration by teachers, students and others in Tegucigalpa on the 23rd day of a teachers’ strike.
A one-day strike by Puerto Rican teachers over budget issues and the need for additional teachers shut down about 90% of the island’s 1,500 public schools over the weekend.
Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council approved 19 and rejected 15 of the 34 who applied to run for the presidency in elections scheduled for Nov. 28. Hip-hop star Wyclef Jean was among the rejected.
Henry BenÃtez Huamán, 14, died from a gunshot wound he received when police agents attacked protesters in the town of Kitena, in La Convención province of Peru’s southeastern Cusco region.
Thousands of Honduran workers marched in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula to demand an increase in the minimum wage and to show solidarity with teachers in the 14th day of an open-ended strike.
Hundreds of supporters of Puerto Rican independence gathered at the Ateneo Puertorriqueño in San Juan to commemorate Dolores (“Lolita”) Lebrón Sotomayor, a “mythic figure” who died at the age of 90.
The Mexican government’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) issued recommendations in the case of two graduate students killed during a gunfight between soldiers and alleged drug cartel members.
