There were celebrations in Mexico City’s downtown Alameda park as 31 same-sex couples applied for marriage licenses under a new law that took effect in the Federal District.
The Latin America and Caribbean Unity Summit in Cancún ended with an agreement to form a provisionally named “Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.”
A Mexican judge upheld a 21-year prison term for two indigenous women charged with “kidnapping” six federal agents. Amnesty International says the women were “framed.”
Thousands of Guatemalan public school teachers blocked roads and occupied the capital’s central plaza to press their demands for a 16% pay raise.
Meeting in Porto Alegre for the 10th annual World Social Forum, 24 Latin American popular organizations issued a statement denouncing a “new, aggressive escalation of imperialism.”
