Former Argentine dictator Jorge Videla was condemned to 50 years in prison for the abduction of babies of “disappeared” dissidents. Another former dictator, Reynaldo Bignone, received 15 years on related charges.
Sendero Luminoso guerillas scored two attacks on army “counter-terrorist bases” in as many weeks, leaving one solider dead and one wounded. One attack was in Huancavelica, far outside Sendero’s usual jungle territory.
Bolivian police used tear gas, pepper spray and blasts from a water cannon mounted on an armored vehicle against protesters at the camp established by the Ninth Indigenous March just off Plaza Murillo in central La Paz.
A Japanese expert panel issued a report finding that the Fukushima nuclear disaster was preventable—giving a boost to more than 1,300 plaintiffs who have filed suit against the Tokyo Electric Power Co.
With Peru’s northern Cajamarca region under a state of emergency, police again fired on protesters in a rural town, leaving one dead. Protest leader Marco Arana was meanwhile arrested and beaten in the regional capital.
A delegation of senior British jurists released a report finding Israel’s treatment of Palestinian children in custody violates international law, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Fourth Geneva Convention.
Rights advocates and left-wing political parties in India are demanding an inquiry into the massacre of 19 adivasi (tribal) villagers in a remote part of Chhattisgarh state by police hunting for Naxalite guerillas.
For two weeks the jungle construction site of the planned Belo Monte dam in Brazil’s Pará state has been under occupation by some 200 members of the Xikrin, Arara and other indigenous peoples, many armed with spears.
Three people were killed—including a youth of 17 years—when National Police and army troops fired on protesters opposing the US-backed Conga gold mine project in Peru’s northern region of Cajamarca.
More than 1,000 Haitians marched through downtown Port-au-Prince to protest a plan to destroy homes they’ve built on hillsides overlooking the city; many of them lost their previous homes in the 2010 earthquake.
Republicans, Democrats, the NRA, the ATF, the US Attorney in Arizona, the FBI—they all seem to have a hand in the United States’ failure to stop the smuggling of assault weapons to Mexico.
A rapid count shows the PRI’s Enrique Peña Nieto winning with about 38% of the votes, followed by center-left Andrés Manuel López Obrador with almost 32%; ruling party candidate Josefina Vázquez Mota came in third.
