Police detained 89 demonstrators after more than 6,500 people flooded Tel Aviv’s Habima Square to protest the arrest of Daphni Leef, a leader of last summer’s mass movement against the high cost of housing in Israel.
Three Federal Police officers were killed in a shoot-out with two other Federal Police at a food court in Mexico City’s airport. The Federal District police commander denied any knowledge of narco-corruption at the facility.
Mexicans go on dying in the “drug war,” while in the US the gun lobby tries to blame gun control advocates for the flow of US-purchased assault weapons to the Mexican drug gangs.
The OAS human rights commission reports that eight members of the LGBT community in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero have been murdered since the beginning of the year.
Cintia Yadira Herrera died of heart problems shortly after arriving in northern Honduras on a mass deportation flight arranged by US immigration authorities, who had ignored her complaints of feeling ill.
Some 1,500 workers went on strike for a week to oppose the Costa Rican government’s latest move in its campaign to privatize the country’s commercially important Caribbean ports.
Brazilian soldiers from the UN “stabilization” mission made three attempts to enter part of the State University of Haiti by force, the latest violation of a university space by UN troops.
Leading French cholera expert Dr. Renaud Piarroux thinks the Haitian epidemic could be stopped in months with chlorine and clean water—while the UN and the US media are pushing a dubious vaccination drive.
After more than a week of student anti-austerity demonstrations in Sudan, President Omar al-Bashir finally responded to the movement, dismissing the protesters as “bubbles and aliens” who will be “dealt with.”
The US Supreme Court struck down three provisions of Arizona’s controversial immigration law—but upheld the most controversial provision, requiring police to check the immigration status of anyone arrested.
The Ninth Indigenous March, now camped at Yolosa on the edge of the Bolivian Altiplano, held a celebration of the Aymara New Year festival, Willkakuti or “Return of the Sun”—marking year 5520 in the Aymara calendar.
A DEA agent shot a man to death in Honduras during a raid on a smuggling operation—marking the first confirmed time the DEA has killed during an operation since the agency began deploying teams to Latin America.
