Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Bolivia for his third visit with President Evo Morales—a champion of Latin America’s indigenous peoples who has nothing to say about Iran’s oppression and persecution of the Kurds.
Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexico's leading presidential candidate, appointed Gen. Oscar Naranjo, former chief of Colombia's National Police, to work as an "external advisor" for public security if he wins the July 1 election.
Students aren’t the only people questioning Peña Nieto’s favorable coverage in Mexico’s media. US diplomats were secretly suspicious of the media coverage and the opinion polls when he was still a governor, WikiLeaks reveals.
Police agents in Lagos de Moreno in the western state of Jalisco allegedly helped in the kidnapping of three men who were later found murdered. The agents are believed to have been working for a drug gang.
Some 200 Honduran security agents descended on a campesino encampment in an early-morning raid in the northern department of Cortés, destroying homes and shops and arresting 30 people, mostly women.
The Puerto Rican public school system is initiating a program to replace Spanish with English as the language used in teaching most courses, despite warnings from teachers that it won’t work.
After six weeks without generating any nuclear power, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda this week succeeded in lobbying local authorities in Fukui prefecture to approve the restart of two reactors at the Ohi nuclear complex, raising the specter of widespread power… Read more“March for Life” from Fukushima to Hiroshima, as Japan revives reactors
A US prosecutor has filed drug trafficking charges against retired Colombian police general Mauricio Santoyo Velasco—who was former President Alvaro Uribe’s security chief from 2002 to 2006.
Yemeni government forces took back AQAP’s major stronghold towns after a month-long offensive. But al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has grown along with US drone strikes—from a handful of militants to a widespread insurgency.
As Iran announces plans to build a nuclear submarine, Israel receives its fourth nuclear-capable submarine from Germany. Der Spiegel reports that the subs have already been armed with nuclear-tipped Cruise missiles.
Rep Steve King (R-IA) said that President Obama’s plan to implement some policies of the DREAM Act is unconstitutional and that he plans to sue the administration to delay the new policy’s implementation
A federal judge in the District of Columbia dismissed a lawsuit filed by seven Guatemalans who alleged that they had been the subject of non-consensual human medical experimentation by the US Public Health Service.
