Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa, at a meeting in Quito with a delegation of the US-based activist group SOA Watch, made the announcement that Ecuador is ceasing to send soldiers to the School of the Americas.
Gen. Carter Ham of US Africa Command warned of growing coordination between three major terror networks across the continent: al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), al-Shabaab in Somalia, and Boko Haram in Nigeria.
Police detained 89 demonstrators after more than 6,500 people flooded Tel Aviv’s Habima Square to protest the arrest of Daphni Leef, a leader of last summer’s mass movement against the high cost of housing in Israel.
Three Federal Police officers were killed in a shoot-out with two other Federal Police at a food court in Mexico City’s airport. The Federal District police commander denied any knowledge of narco-corruption at the facility.
After more than a week of student anti-austerity demonstrations in Sudan, President Omar al-Bashir finally responded to the movement, dismissing the protesters as “bubbles and aliens” who will be “dealt with.”
The Ninth Indigenous March, now camped at Yolosa on the edge of the Bolivian Altiplano, held a celebration of the Aymara New Year festival, Willkakuti or “Return of the Sun”—marking year 5520 in the Aymara calendar.
A DEA agent shot a man to death in Honduras during a raid on a smuggling operation—marking the first confirmed time the DEA has killed during an operation since the agency began deploying teams to Latin America.
Turkey has called a NATO meeting to discuss a response to the shooting down of one of its warplanes by Syrian forces—as the Free Syria Army establishes a command center in Istanbul, and sends a delegation to Washington.
It made headlines when Mexican officials had to back-pedal after announcing they had arrested the son of fugitive kingpin Chapo Guzmán, but the real war underway just over the Texas line in Tamaulipas remains invisible.
Roxana Sorina Buta, a 21-year-old aspiring actress and Romanian immigrant, was the latest victim of reckless motorists when she was killed in a hit-and-run near Manhattan’s Union Square on May 24.
Peasants throughout Paraguay have called for a national mobilization to oppose the impeachment and removal of populist President Fernando Lugo—called an “express coup d’etat” carried out in violation of legal norms.
One protester was gravely hurt as police attacked a demonstration against the planned Conga gold mine project in Peru’s northern city of Cajamarca. President Humala meanwhile plugs a “new mining” policy at the Rio summit.
