A Buenos Aires court declared former Argentine president Carlos Menem (1989-1999) innocent of involvement in the government’s clandestine sales of arms to Ecuador and Croatia from 1991 to 1995.
Honduras armed forces chief Gen. René Osorio Canales claims police and soldiers were ambushed by “people with high-caliber weapons, people who have dedicated themselves to guerrilla activities” in the conflicted Lower Aguán Valley.
The Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) agreed to end a sit-in the unionists had been holding in Mexico City’s main plaza since March; the government has agreed to find jobs for laid-off workers.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a 17-year term was not enough for Jose Padilla, convicted on terrorism charges, ordering a new sentence. Padilla himself is suing the US, saying he was illegally detained for over three years on a military base.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez criticized the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) as a tool of “the imperial power” for ruling in favor of presidential hopeful Leopoldo López, thereby allowing him to run for office.
At least 24 were killed in Yemen’s capital Sanaa as security forces opened fire on protesters calling for the ouster of longtime president Ali Abdullah Saleh. The Pentagon is meanwhile stepping up drone strikes on al-Qaeda insurgents in the country’s south.
Some 500 villagers in China’s Zhejiang province protested at the factory of Zhejiang Jinko Solar, storming the compound, ransacking offices and overturning vehicles. Villagers charge the factory poisoned their river, killing a large swath of fish.
Days ahead of the release of a White House report singling out Venezuela for insufficient narcotics enforcement efforts, the US Treasury Department accused four close allies of President Hugo Chávez of assisting Colombia’s FARC guerillas.
President Barack Obama has included El Salvador and Belize on the list of 22 countries ranked as “Major Illicit Drug Transit or Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries,” for the first time placing all seven Central American nations on the annual list.
El Salvador’s President Mauricio Funes won praise from leftist supporters of his FMLN government with his decision to recognize Palestinian statehood—but also won protest with his move to send troops to Afghanistan to back up NATO’s mission.
Members of the Colombian National Police began training Salvadoran, Mexican, Honduran and Guatemalan police and attorneys general at the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in El Salvador—raising sharp criticisms from rights activists.
We recently noted China‘s aggressive embrace of the pathological, dystopian car culture first pioneered by the West. Now comes another sign of this cultural retrogression. From RTTNews, Sept. 16: China Detains General’s Teenage Son Over Road Rage Incident The teenage… Read moreScion of China’s elite abuses proles in “road rage” incident
