The conflict over the Xstrata mine in Espinar province of Peru’s Cuzco region escalated as National Police troops in full riot gear stormed the office of the mayor, Oscar Mollohuanca, arresting him on charges of leading protests that have left four dead.
Shakeel Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who helped the US government find Osama bin Laden was convicted last week for his association to a militant group in Pakistan, not for his ties to the US Central Intelligence Agency, as was originally reported.
Colombia’s Juan Manuel Santos and Chinese President Hu Jintao presided over the signing in Beijing of a pact calling for the two governments to cooperate in building a trans-oceanic pipeline through the Andean country.
Much of Colombia’s lowland jungle department of Putumayo is shut down by a “paro armado”—a civil strike enforced by the guns of the FARC guerillas, in response to glyphosate spraying across the territory.
Two young Tibetan men set fire to themselves outside one of Tibet’s holiest shrines, the Jokhang Temple—marking the first self-immolations in Lhasa, Tibet’s historic capital. Chinese state media report that one of the young men died.
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Casablanca, Morocco's largest city, in a renewed push for democratic reforms. The march, organized by trade unions, was the largest since a new government took office in January.
In a new assertion of power by Haiti’s officially disbanded army, more than 100 people claiming to be former soldiers marched on Port-au-Prince in uniform; some carried weapons. Haitian police and UN troops made about 50 arrests.
In the latest Honduran police scandal, an ex-agent is prime suspect in the kidnapping and murder of journalist Angel Alfredo Villatoro. He had been shot twice in the head, and media reported that the body was dressed in a police uniform.
Private and public university students in Mexico have united to protest media coverage of the upcoming presidential elections—and the likely victory of Enrique Peña Nieto, candidate of the former entrenched and authoritarian ruling party.
While continuing to fight for a complete educational overhaul at home, Chilean students are also expressing solidarity with a similar struggle in Canada’s Quebec province.
Guatemala’s President Otto Perez Molina imposed a state of siege on the remote Maya village of Santa Cruz Barillas after residents overran an army outpost following the assassination of a community leader in the struggle against a hydro-electric project.
Indigenous Aymara ayllus (communal villages) in Bolivia’s Potosí department clashed with police in an attempt to occupy the camp of a Canadian mining company they say is operating on their territory without their consent.
