Port-au-Prince authorities are evicting 400-450 families from the parking lot of the Sylvio Cator soccer stadium, where they have been living after being displaced by a January 2010 earthquake.
A 24-hour national general strike against the economic policies of Dominican president Leonel Fernández was “95 to 100%” effective, according to the organizers. But there was significant violence, with at least three people reported killed.
Tens of thousands of Chilean students and supporters held their fourth massive demonstration demanding a reversal of the system of privatized education instituted under Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem finds that more than 800 Palestinian youths under the age of 18 charged with throwing stones in the West Bank over a six-year period have been imprisoned—while imprisonment of minors is illegal in Israel.
The “Free Tibet” crowd is not disturbed as the Dalai Lama celebrates his 76th birthday with John Boehner—while the Dalai-demonization set continues to portray the Tibetan struggle as a CIA astroturf creation.
Nery Jeremías Orellana, 26, the manager of Radio Joconguera in the town of Candelaria, in the western department of Lempira, Honduras, was gunned down on his way to a regional meeting of community radio stations.
Libyan and Syrian opposition leaders met with NATO and EU diplomats in Istanbul, winning support for their efforts to oust their respective dictators—while Yemeni protest leaders elected a transitional council under siege in violence-torn Sanaa.
More than 3,000 people—Jews, Muslim, and Christians, Israelis and Palestinians—marched in Jerusalem to demand an independent Palestine in the 1967 borders, chanting “Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies.”
Hundreds of young Israelis are now living in a tent city they have erected on the fashionable Rothschild Boulevard across from the National Theater to protest unaffordable rents in Tel Aviv.
The People’s Defense Front in Peru’s central Andean region of Ayacucho, announced a one-week deadline for the Southern Peru Copper Corporation to halt its exploration activities in the area before local campesinos launch an indefinite civil strike.
Some 180 hectares of rainforest in the Amazon have been defoliated using a potent mix of herbicides sprayed by airplane, according to IBAMA, Brazil’s environmental law enforcement agency.
Pedro Pimentel Rios, a veteran of Guatemala’s eilte military unit, the Kaibiles, was deported by ICE back to the Central American nation for his role in the 1982 massacre of at least 162 villagers at Las Dos Erres, in the northern jungle department of Petén.
