Two police officers were killed and four were seriously injured while evicting hundreds of peasant families from Bosque de Pómac nature preserve in northern Peru.
On Jan. 20, nation-wide protests over large-scale metal mining called by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) brought out some 12,000 people from indigenous, campesino, environmentalist and human rights organizations across eleven provinces of the small Andean nation…. Read moreAnti-mining protesters block roads in Ecuador
With a short memo on Inauguration Day, President Barack Obama blocked plans to loosen some air quality standards and to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list. But he did not stop several other controversial, late-term environmental regulations… Read moreObama moves to halt Bush regs on ecology, public lands
In his first call to a foreign leader, President Barack Obama spoke to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas—a day after Hamas held a massive “victory” rally in Gaza.
President Barack Obama has called for a halt to the Guantánamo tribunals, directing prosecutors to seek a 120-day postponement for his administration “to review the military commission process.”
The indigenous community of Huampami in the Peruvian Amazon is holding employees of a Canadian-backed mining concern hostage to protest what they say are illegal operations on their lands.
Campesinos in Peru blocked roads to protest provisions of the new free trade agreement with the US which would promote privatization of water resources.
Honduran teachers occupied the Education Secretariat to protest the government’s delays in paying salaries and its failure to pay full year-end bonuses.
Nine Dominican police agents should be tried for the Dec. 30 shooting deaths of five members of the country’s transport workers, a judicial report has found.
Barack Obama will eliminate some sanctions against Cuba but “it is not time to lift” the 47-year-old US economic embargo, Hillary Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
One of Barack Obama’s first moves as president is to be nomination of Sen. George Mitchell as Middle East envoy. Mitchell headed the 2000 committee to probe the roots of the al-Aqsa Intifada.
A tense calm prevails over Gaza as aid agencies take stock of the massive destruction, with some 4,100 homes destroyed, while on the West Bank “al-Basha’er Army” claimed a shooting attack on an Israeli settler.
