Honduran radio journalist Luz Marina Paz Villalobos and her driver were killed in a hail of bullets fired by men on two motorbikes in Tegucigalpa. Her morning news program had frequently taken on drug trafficking and corruption.
Poverty decreased in most of Latin America—only Honduras and Mexico showed an increase in poverty rates, 1.7% for Honduras and 1.5% for Mexico.
Unknown assailants gunned down Mexican activist Nepomuceno Moreno in Hermosillo, Sonora. Moreno had opposed the government’s “war on drugs”; local officials suggested he was a criminal himself.
A Chilean judge charged former U.S. Navy Capt. Ray E. Davis with involvement in the murders of two US citizens in the days after the 1973 military coup that overthrew President Salvador Allende.
Two North American apparel companies are telling their Haiti subcontractors to reinstate recently fired union officers as the Haitian assembly industry faces mounting criticism.
In a major victory for Costa Rica’s environmental movement, the country’s Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s decision canceling a concession for an open-pit gold mine in Crucitas de San Carlos.
Heads of state from 33 countries met in Caracas for the first summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), a new regional bloc that, unlike the OAS, includes Cuba—but excludes the United States and Canada.
Talks are underway between the government in Argentina’s Neuquén province and local indigenous Mapuche communities after a days-long protest occupation of a natural gas plant owned by the Houston-based Apache Corporation.
President Ollanta Humala of Peru went on national TV to announce that he has imposed a state of emergency in Cajamarca region, the scene of a general strike in opposition to a mega-scale mining project that threatens local water resources.
Following 13 self-immolations by Tibetan monks since 2009, principally in Sichuan province, one was reported for the first from within the Tibet Autonomous Region itself. The monk is said to have survived and is hospitalized.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company released a study finding that melted fuel at the Fukushima No. 1 reactor has nearly reached the steel wall under the concrete at the base of the containment structure—with a full meltdown possibly imminent.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged the UN Security Council to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court for investigation into possible crimes against humanity committed by the Syrian government.
