Two Colombian soldiers, Sgt. Pablo Emilio Moncayo and Pvt. Josué Daniel Calvo, returned to their hometowns following their release by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
An association of 90 groups held a rally in Mexico City to call for a boycott of the seaside resort city of CancĂșn as a protest against Quintana Roo state’s anti-choice policies.
The Vietnamese telecommunications company Viettel formally acquired 60% of the shares in Haiti’s state-owned phone company, TĂ©lĂ©communications d’Haiti (Haiti TĂ©lĂ©co).
The Haitian Senate approved an 18-month extension of the state of emergency President RenĂ© PrĂ©val decreed after the Jan. 12 earthquake devastated the capital areaâsparking opposition protests.
Cuban president RaĂșl Castro led some 800,000 in the traditional May Day march to Havana’s Plaza de la RevoluciĂłn, saying survival of the socialist system will require “extraordinary sacrifices.”
As has become traditional, rival Mexican union confederations celebrated International Workers Day on May 1 with separate rallies in Mexico City’s huge ZĂłcalo plaza.
In Panama, Honduras and Guatamala, workers marched to oppose neoliberal economic policies, while marchers in El Salvador demanded the new FMLN government “comply with the change.”
While May Day marchers in Ecuador generally supported the governmentâand those in Colombia opposed itâVenezuela saw separate marches by supporters and opponents of Hugo ChĂĄvez.
Latin Americans generally used the traditional International Workers Day marches on May 1 this year to protest around national issues.
A Uruguayan judge handed down a 20-year term to ex-foreign minister Juan Carlos Blanco in the case of a “disappeared” schoolteacher.
The Haitian government declared a moratorium on evictions of homeless residents from improvised encampments on private property.
A new report from Doctors of the World finds dangerous and degrading conditions for women in Guatemalan maquiladoras.
