Central America

Zelaya back in Honduras?

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has reportedly taken refuge in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, and is calling for resistance leaders to converge on the capital.

The Amazon

Peru: Hunt Oil contract to re-ignite Amazon uprising?

Harakmbut leaders in Peru’s Amazon region of Madre de Dios issued a statement imposing a one-week deadline for Hunt Oil to quit their territory before indigenous communities physically expel them.

Central America

Honduras: resistance plans election boycott

Two Honduran presidential candidates announced that they will not participate in the Nov. 29 general elections unless ousted President Manuel Zelaya is returned to power.

Central America

Honduras: US deports coup supporter

Honduran business leader Adolfo Facussé was deported after flying to Miami, apparently the casualty of a State Department decision to revoke visas of those involved in the coup d’etat.

The Caribbean

Haiti: students arrested in new protests

Haitian riot police clashed with students occupying campus buildings in Port-au-Prince in solidarity with workers demanding a minimum wage hike.

Central America

Guatemala: charge nine in attorney’s murder

Guatemalan and UN authorities arrested nine suspects in the murder of attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg. The search for the “intellectual authors” is ongoing, authorities said.

The Andes

VRAE: Ashaninka arm against narco-senderistas

Self-defense committees in indigenous communities of Peru’s conflicted Apurímac and Ene River Valley (VRAE) received 400 rifles from the army to fight “narco-terrorist” groups operating in the zone.

Africa

Great powers fight in Somalia?

The same day a US Special Forces helicopter raid reportedly killed a Shabab insurgent leader in Somalia, residents at the southern village of Erile reported a second chopper raid by French forces