Honduran campesino Henry Roney Díaz was killed when soldiers, police and private guards tried to remove campesinos occupying an estate in the Aguán River Valley in the northern department of Colón.
Popular Haitian singer Michel Martelly (“Sweet Micky”) was sworn in as his country’s 56th president amid a blackout in the capital—after a failed effort to amend the Constitution to allow presidents two consecutive terms.
166,000 homeless Haitians are threatened with eviction from their displaced persons camps while the Clinton Bush Fund spends $2 million building a luxury hotel.
A court in Argentina sentenced eight former army officers to life imprisonment for their role in the Margarita Belén massacre, named for the town where 22 unarmed political prisoners were tortured and killed on Dec. 13, 1976.
International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo announced that he is seeking arrest warrants for Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi and two others in his “inner circle” on charges of crimes against humanity.
Hugo Chávez is playing it cool over a report by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies accusing him of collaboration with the FARC guerillas—but Venezuela’s UK embassy dismissed it as a “dodgy dossier.”
Guatemalan authorities announced the discovery of 27 bodies—all but one decapitated—at a ranch in the northern jungle of Petén. The victims were farmworkers who were apparently massacred by a Zeta narco-trafficking cell.
Barack Obama announced that he is ordering the Interior Department to conduct annual lease sales in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve—as the oil industry gears up for a new thrust of expansion in the Last Frontier.
An Israeli security firm that recently made headlines when WikiLeaks revealed its numerous intrigues in Latin America has now been named as recruiting mercenaries in West Africa to fight for Moammar Qaddafi’s regime.
WikiLeaks cables reveal embarrassing details of an Israeli military contractor's secret operations in Latin America—sparking a government "hate campaign" against journalists who reported the shenanigans in Panama.
In an open letter, young Jewish descendants of the Arab and Islamic world living in Israel write to their peers in the Middle East and North Africa, expressing solidarity with the regional revolutions.
The annual Jewish pilgrimage to the Tunisian island of Djerba for the Lag B’Omer holy day has been officially canceled for the first time ever due to security concerns this year.
