Statistic from the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives indicate that a total of 70% of nearly 30,000 illegal guns the Mexican government seized in 2009 and 2010 came from the US.
Campesino organizations from the Lower Aguán Valley marched in Tegucigalpa to protest the killings of Aguán campesinos and to demand that the government keep its land distribution promises.
Four Mapuche activists imprisoned in Chile’s central Araucanía region have ended a liquids-only hunger strike they started on March 15 to protest convictions in what they considered an unfair trial.
Glenn Greenwald hyperventilates about a WikiLeaks cable revealing that (gasp!) US oil companies didn’t like Qaddafi, as he betrays the Libyan rebels by portraying “regime change” as just a cynical conspiracy by Exxon & ilk.
Libyan rebels broke through the Qaddafi-loyalist forces besieging Misrata and once again advanced toward Tripoli—despite complaints that NATO had failed to back their drive to break the siege with air power.
A judge for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned the release of Yemeni Guantánamo Bay detainee Hussein Salem Mohammed Almerfedi, finding circumstantial evidence that he is part of al-Qaeda.
Al-Qaeda leader Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, said to be behind the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, was killed at a checkpoint in Somalia by forces who didn’t realize he was the most wanted man in Africa.
A “peace caravan,” which has spent a week travelling through Mexico to protest against drug-related violence and the “war on drugs,” crossed into the US at El Paso, where protest leader Javier Sicilia called for a halt to the Merida Initiative.
After a suspension to allow for presidential elections to take place in the Puno region, local Aymara activists announced that they will resume their strike civil strike indefinitely, and immediately erected roadblocks on the main highway to Bolivia.
Dozens of armed Israeli settlers attacked residents of Qusra village in the northern West Bank, as Israeli troops broke up a an anti-settlement rally in Iraq Burin and conducted raids across the West Bank.
Nearly 3,000 have crossed the border from Syria into Turkey as the Syrian army moves to put down an uprising in the northern town of Jisr al-Shughur. Friday protests meanwhile rocked some 50 cities and towns across the country.
As deadly repression continues to mount in Yemen, CIA director Leon Panetta told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the US has not halted cooperation with President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s embattled regime.
