One person was killed and 23 wounded as Colombia’s army retook a base that had hours earlier been occupied by protesters in Cauca department. Indigenous protesters armed with sticks ejected soldiers from the base.
World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg discusses the struggles of the Quechua of Peru and the Tuareg of Mali—the first threatened by global capitalism, the second by the global jihad.
Brazil’s government reaffirmed a court decision calling for return of usurped lands to the Xavante indigenous people. When Xavante protested at the Rio+20 summit, local ranchers blocked roads and burned bridges.
Environmentalist Alberto de Jesús is on a 1,100-mile journey from Venezuela to Puerto Rico by kayak to publicize the situation of Oscar López Rivera, an independence fighter who has been imprisoned in the US for 31 years.
A new wave of murders indicates that violence in the Lower Aguán Valley of Honduras is not subsiding despite several agreements aimed at ending the region’s longstanding agrarian conflict.
With chants of “Fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud,” thousands of Mexico City residents responded to the country’s July 1 presidential and legislative elections with a massive and apparently spontaneous march repudiating the results.
In a closer-than-expected race, Enrique Peña Nieto of the centrist PRI won the presidency with 38.22% of the votes, according to officials, followed by center-left candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador with 31.57%.
The US government is investigating money laundering through the HSBC-Mexico, a subsidiary Europe’s largest bank. The bank is expected to end up paying a fine of more than $1 billion.
A US Navy ship fired at a fishing boat off the United Arab Emirates (UAE), killing one—as Iran again threatens to block the Strait of Hormuz and the UAE opens a new pipeline that strategically bypasses the choke-point.
Ecologists held direct actions against Scottish Coal’s Mainshill Open Cast Coal Site and BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam uranium mine in South Australia—as miners from Asturias marched on Madrid against planned mine closures.
Islamist factions pushed secular Tuareg rebels out of their last foothold in breakaway northern Mali. With a sharia state now in place, the UN Security Council is weighing a request for military action by West African nations.
Belgrade Women in Black held a public vigil to commemorate the Srebrenica massacre on the 17th anniversary of the worst single atrocity in the Bosnian genocide July 11. Banners read “We Remember Genocide of Srebrenica” and “Solidarity.” Photo: Women in Black See… Read moreBelgrade Women in Black remember Srebrenica
