Bolivia’s Interior Minister Sacha Llorenti became the latest cabinet member to resign in the wake of National Police repression of an indigenous protest march in the eastern Amazonian rainforest region of the country.
Local authorities in Peru’s southern region of Tacna called for a halt in protests to give the government time to meet demands that a permit for expanded mining operations be dropped—but pledge a general strike next week if demands are not met.
Police in Mexico’s resort city of Acapulco found five decomposing human heads left in a sack outside a primary school. The city’s schools have been closed since last month with teachers on strike in response to extortion threats from criminal gangs.
Will the 9-11 “Truthers” give any honest reaction to al-Qaeda’s statement telling Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stop trying to deprive the terror network of the glory by blaming the attacks on the US government? We’re waiting, guys…
In the worst violence in occupied Western Sahara this year, ongoing clashes sparked by a soccer match have left seven dead, pitting ethnic Sahrawi supporters of the home team against Moroccan settlers who supported the visiting team from near Casablanca.
The sentencing of a woman to 10 lashes for driving a car shows the scale of gender discrimination in Saudi Arabia, Amnesty International said. The sentence comes after the monarchy announced that women will be granted the vote in local polls.
At a meeting in Benghazi to hash out the details of a new government, Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) pledged to investigate Amnesty International’s claims of human rights abuses by both sides in the conflict.
The Obama administration is considering trying Ali Mussa Daqduq, the former leader of Hezbollah who was captured in Iraq, in a military commission on US soil, according to anonymous counter-terrorism officials.
Managers at two factories in northern Honduras owned by the US clothing firm Delta Apparel, Inc. are continuing to threaten women employees suffering from work-related injuries, according to the Honduran Women’s Collective (CODEMUH).
Between 200 and 600 soldiers and national police agents reportedly raided the campesino community of Rigores in Honduras’ conflicted Lower Aguán Valley, breaking into homes, destroying belongings and hitting both adults and children.
Four students and two police agents were injured in a confrontation between students and the notorious ESMAD riot police at Pamplona University in Colombia’s northern department of Norte de Santander.
Chilean students took to the streets again to push their demands for free public education and a reversal of the privatization policies started under Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s 1973-1990 dictatorship.
