Citing a favorable investment climate, a George Soros fund and partners announced a new “West Indies Free Zone” for Haiti—after the government turned back efforts to raise the minimum wage.
Released CIA documents reveal that Luis Posada Carriles built bombs for use against Cuban ships in Veracruz—as the Agency groomed him for a “civil position” in post-Castro Cuba.
After a week of marches and road blockades, Ecuador’s national indigenous movement and the government of President Rafael Correa have opened talks on issues including the new water law.
Prosecutors in Guadalajara have filed charges against two suspected members of a an armed gang that carried out a raid on a jeweler while disguised in clown costumes.
A UN human rights panel warns that the Honduran coup regime is hiring mercenaries from Colombia, as a Bogotá daily reports that ex-paramilitaries are being recruited.
Supporters of deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya warned that a crackdown on opposition media could derail talks aimed at resolving the country’s political crisis.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe demanded that his ministers investigate the jailbreak that freed guerilla leader Gustavo Anibal Giraldo Quinchia AKA “Pablito.”
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales denied that his government is engaged in a regional arms race, insisting the purchase of six Chinese military jets is only for drug enforcement.
Some 1,000 workers at Shougang Hierro, Peru’s only iron ore producer, have gone on strike demanding higher wages and better working conditions.
Thich Nhat Hanh has protested the eviction of his followers from a monastery in southern Vietnam’s Lam Dong province. Vietnamese intellectuals have issued a petition to support them.
India’s Naxalite guerillas have broached a ceasefire and dialogue with the government after an audacious attack on a police patrol in Maharashtra that left 17 dead.
Shabab insurgents amputated a foot and a hand from each of two young men accused of robbery in the southern port of Kismayu. The militants compelled thousands of residents to watch.
