The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin in Madison has announced that the institution is cancelling its sports apparel contract with Nike over conditions in the company’s Honduras maquilas.
As of April 25 students were continuing an occupation of the RĂo Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) in San Juan to protest plans to cut next year’s budget by $100 million.
Former US president Bill Clinton said that the international community needs to stay involved in Haiti if it wants to prevent violence from breaking out there.
The Haitian government and international agencies have intensified efforts to relocate Port-au-Prince residents left homeless by the January earthquake.
For the first time the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has included Honduras among the countries that it “believed warranted special attention.”
Honduran president Porfirio Lobo signed an agreement with the Aguán campesino movement, granting some 2,600 families about 11,000 hectares of land.
Agents of the National Police of Haiti began removing some 1,300 families—about 7,335 people—from Port-au-Prince’s Sylvio Cator soccer stadium.
Haitian president René Préval expressed his satisfaction with the results of an international donors meeting held by the UN in New York to discuss rebuilding Haiti.
The pro-government Tegucigalpa daily El Heraldo reports that Honduran president Porfirio Lobo Sosa has ordered a “strong militarization” of the lower Aguán River Valley.
The Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) announced that some 2,300 members were planning to start a mass hunger strike in Mexico City’s central plaza, the ZĂłcalo.
A private guard shot a Honduran peasant dead when a group of campesinos attempted to occupy an African palm farm in ColĂłn department .
3,000 Dominicans marched in CotuĂ to protest the Pueblo Viejo gold mine, operated by Toronto-based Barrick Gold.
