As the Dominican election race heats up, the government charges that a retired general close to an opposition candidate is plotting to destabilize the government of Haitian president Michel Martelly.
Former Argentine dictator Gen. Jorge Videla has admitted that the military disappeared thousands of people after a coup whose goals included creating a market economy and “disciplining” unions.
The Taliban launched coordinated attacks in the Afghan capital and three other provinces—days after hundreds marched in Faryab province to protest a NATO-led night raid that resulted in the death of a madrassa teacher.
Six days after they were abducted by Shining Path guerillas, hostage Camisea Consortium workers were freed in the rainforest of Peru’s Cuzco region—but accounts are sketchy and contradictory on exactly how the captives were released.
Much of Peru’s northern Andean region of Cajamarca was shut down in a 24-hour civil strike or paro, the latest action in the protest campaign against the US-owned Conga gold-mining project.
Ruling in a case brought by the Mothers of Srebrenica, the Netherlands high court found that the relatives of Bosnian men killed by Serb forces in 1995 cannot sue the UN for failing to protect them during the massacre.
A group of 40 women of the Innu indigenous nation in northern Quebec have launched a cross-country march on Montreal to protest the provincial government’s Plan Nord, a mega-project that would open the north to mining and energy companies.
As Mali’s new interim president Dioncounda Traore pledged a “total, relentless war” against Tuareg rebels that have seized the country’s north, Nicolas Sarkozy warned of a “a terrorist or Islamic state in the heart of the Sahel.”
The latest coup d’etat in Guinea-Bissau is being linked by Western diplomats to the international drug trade. Presidential candidate Carlos Gomes may have ran afoul of the military by pledging to crack down on cocaine transshipments.
A National Police helicopter searching for 40 hostages held by presumed Sendero Luminoso guerillas in a rainforest area of Peru’s Cuzco region was fired upon, killing a police captain on board, and wounding three others.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is hearing a case involving a “dirty war” atrocity in which President Ollanta Humala was implicated—sparking a frenzy of conspiracy theories among Peru’s political class.
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) and Department of the Interior (DoI) announced a $1.023 billion settlement with 41 American Indian tribes April 11. The announcement comes following a 22-month negotiation period after the tribes charged in a class action… Read moreAmerican Indians reach trust settlement with federal government
