With the Keystone pipeline to the US stalled, Canada’s government is pushing a new Pacific route from the Alberta tar sands fields for export to China. But First Nations in the proposed pipelines’ path oppose both routes.
The AFL-CIO has joined with two Honduran union federations to file a petition with the US Department of Labor asking the US to push the Honduran government to address labor violations.
After 15 days on hunger strike, Antonia López Cruz sewed her lips together and had herself tied to the fence outside the Mexican Senate building to demand the return of her six-year-old daughter.
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.
