Hundreds of indigenous Chortí blocked access to Copán archeological park, Honduras’ most important ancient Mayan site, to press demands for land.
Television reporter Rolando Santis was shot dead by gunmen on a motorcycle in Guatemala City, days after attorney Gladys Monterroso was kidnapped and tortured for 13 hours.
At an international donors conference in Washington, DC in mid-April, UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon says he will seek new “free-trade zones” and industrial parks plans for Haiti.
Medical professionals violated codes of medical ethics by participating in and assisting in ill-treatment of Guantánamo Bay detainees, says a report by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Last year it was the oil shock. This year it’s the econo-cataclysm. Either way, there’s a lesson here. But how many people are going to get it? From AP, April 6: WASHINGTON — U.S. highway deaths in 2008 fell to… Read moreHghway deaths down to 1960s levels
US drone attacks on Pakistan’s northwestern borderlands are causing a massive humanitarian emergency, with up to 1 million displaced in recent weeks, officials in Islamabad claim.
Pakistan’s newly re-instated chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has called a hearing into the video showing the public flogging of a teenage girl in the northwestern Swat Valley.
The US Navy reassigned William Kuebler, a military lawyer defending Guantánamo detainee Omar Khadr, after he filed a complaint against an official overseeing the case.
The southern Philippine region of Mindanao is on high alert following two bomb blasts this weekend that left two dead and several more wounded—one at a fast-food restaurant, and one on a pubic bus.
Officials backed up by Mexican federal troops are destroying roadside shrines in Nuevo Laredo to “Santa Muerte,” patron saint of drug traffickers—drawing protests from the faithful.
Eleven people were found shot to death around Mexico’s conflicted southwest, some bearing signs of torture and left with threatening “narco-messages.”
Meeting with Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano and other Obama administration officials in Cuernavaca, Mexican leaders pledged a new era of bilateral cooperation against the drug cartels.
