Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) decided by a 9-2 vote that same-sex marriages performed in the Federal District (DF, Mexico City) are valid in all the country’s states.
Hundreds marched in Changuinola, Panama, in memory of two workers who were killed in July while protesting legislation opposed by unionists and environmental activists.
A total of 33 candidates met the deadline for filing to run for president in Haiti’s November elections. But critics assert that real power lies with Bill Clinton, who “reigns as lord and master over Haiti.”
Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) upheld a law enacted in the Federal District (DF, or Mexico City) last December recognizing same-sex marriages.
Local police detained a national Honduran campesino leader, Juan Ramón Chinchilla, in the western department of Copán and held him almost 21 hours without offering a legal justification.
A court in the Venezuelan state of Anzoátegui state has handed down prison sentences to 15 police agents for the January 2009 shooting deaths of two unionists at a Mitsubishi Motors Corp plant.
The president of the Union of Mining Industry Workers (SINTRAMINEROS) in Colombia’s Antioquia department is under death threat, while an Antioquia campesino leader was seized by the army.
Haitians protested in Port-au-Prince, Hinche, St-Marc and other cities to mark the 95th anniversary of the start of the 1915-1934 US military occupation of their country—and protest the new UN occupation.
Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretariat announced that the government of President Felipe CalderĂłn is normalizing diplomatic relations with Honduras, broken off after last year’s coup.
Nike, Inc. announced that it is paying $1.54 million to some 1,600 workers laid off in last year’s closure of two Nike subcontractors in the Choloma region of Honduras.
Thousands of people marched in front of the Puerto Rican police headquarters on Roosevelt Avenue in San Juan’s Hato Rey neighborhood to demand the removal of police chief JosĂ© Figueroa Sancha.
After 90 days, a mass hunger strike by laid-off electrical workers in the center of Mexico City came to an end on July 23 following a preliminary agreement between the government and the union.
