Communities affected by mining in Peru’s Andes issued a “Declaration of Huancayo,” demanding a new constitution guaranteeing the rights of the country’s indigenous peoples and establishing the “agricultural character of our country, and not the mineral.”
Speaking before a conference of campesina women in Cochabamba, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales said he fears a US plot to frame him for a drug offense—as his government enters into a counter-narcotics pact with the United Kingdom.
Four former members of the Guatemalan army’s elite Kaibiles pleaded not guilty as the first war crimes trial over the 1982 Dos Erres massacre opened in the Central American nation’s capital.
Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication is contacting media outlets and Internet service providers to suppress “irresponsible rumors” about the disaster at Fukushima—where the reactors have still not been brought under control.
The Israeli troll-o-sphere is abuzz with ghastly cheerleading for the Oslo attacks, while the Jerusalem Post warns of the “the abject failure of multiculturalism.” But will the Judeophobes also call out similar verbiage from the Teabaggers and Pat Buchanan?
Was Dennis Kucinich misquoted when he said Bashir al-Assad “is highly loved and appreciated by the Syrians”? And is the dictator’s uncle Rifaat al-Assad being groomed by the West as Syria’s new boss?
A UN fact-finding team finds fuel, food and medicine shortages in Tripoli. Qaddafi meanwhile accuses NATO of bombing civilian targets, while NATO accuses Qaddafi of using civilian infrastructure for military purposes.
The Syrian government approved a law to allow formation of opposition political parties—but protestors seek an end to Article 8 of the Syrian constitution, which declares the Baath Party leader of the state and society.
An independent commission is investigating human rights violations related to the ongoing pro-democracy protests in Bahrain, following pressure from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
All 44 teachers at a public high school in Colombia’s northern department of Córdoba sought refuge in Montería, the regional capital, after being threatened by a paramilitary group.
The government and the unions representing medical workers for the Social Security Fund signed an agreement ending a strike that the unions had started four days earlier over economic issues.
Activity in the US Congress reflects growing environmentalist opposition to a $450 million pipeline which would carry imported natural gas from the southwest coast to a place near San Juan on the north coast.
