Thousands of protesters returned to Madrid’s central square, the Puerta del Sol, as students, parents and teachers joined in a massive march against education spending cuts by the Spanish capital’s provincial government.
Authorities in Peru say National Police rescued 293 women from sexual exploitation in raids in the country’s Amazonian region of Madre de Dios. Four were arrested in the regional capital Puerto Maldonado on human trafficking charges.
Noel Salgueiro Nevarez AKA “El Flaco” (Skinny), the Sinaloa Cartel’s top boss in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, was captured by army troops in Culiacán. But the cartel’s maximum boss, “Shorty” Guzmán, remains at large.
The UN High Commissioner of Human Rights voiced concerns regarding the growing number of journalists killed in Mexico, and called for Mexican authorities to investigate these crimes and bring those responsible to justice.
The AFL-CIO has initiated a “call-in day” Oct. 4 against the pending US free trade agreement with Colombia, and similar deals with South Korea and Panama. Obama is expected to send the Colombia FTA for approval to Congress in the coming weeks.
Honduran police discovered an illegal shipment of arms from the US in Puerto Cortés, the country’s main port, in the violence-plagued north, torn by land conflicts as well increasing activity by drug smugglers and criminal networks.
Haitian President Michel Martelly’s latest choice for prime minister has been an assistant to former US president Bill Clinton, who is already being referred to in political circles as the de facto “governor of Haiti.”
Three Port-au-Prince apparel factories fired a total of six members of a new local of the Textile and Garment Workers Union (SOTA) little more than a week after the union announced its formation.
Earth’s protective ozone layer above the Arctic was pierced by a hole of unprecedented size last winter and spring caused by a long cold period in the stratosphere, according to new NASA research published in the journal Nature.
In a BBC interview, Siraj Haqqani denied that the Haqqani network is responsible for killing Burhanuddin Rabbani, or is receiving aid from Pakistan’s ISI—but asserted that he’s been approached by the US to join the Afghan government.
Elite forces from Chile’s Special Police Operations Group (GOPE) invaded the Mapuche community of Wañako Mellao, firing at and terrorizing residents, after a group of Mapuche men occupied a local timber camp on traditional indigenous lands.
Indigenous protesters in Bolivia resumed their cross-country march, a week after their progress was halted by a police assault. Scattered confrontations were reported along the way, as demonstrations were held in their support across the country.
