Samuel Ruíz García, the bishop who arguably saved Mexico from civil war by brokering peace talks with the Zapatista rebels in the 1990s, died in Mexico City at the age of 86.
US Army Undersecretary Joseph Westphal said drug cartels are mounting an “insurgency” in Mexico—sparking a harsh reaction from the Mexican interior secretariat.
Libya’s secret police have detained Jamal al-Hajji, an activist who initiated a Facebook call for “day of rage” protests against the Moamar Qaddafi regime on Feb. 17.
Unprecedented numbers of protesters filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand President Mubarak’s ouster, even as the regime and world media colluded to present a return to “normality.”
At a massive march against NAFTA and the government’s neoliberal economic policies, leaders of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union called for driving President Calderón out of office.
There were at least eight killings last year in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León “that evidence indicates were the result of unlawful use of lethal force by army and navy officers.”
Students protesting an $800 tuition surcharge imposed this year at the University of Puerto Rico marked the beginning of the spring semester with a two-hour march and rally.
Jean-Michel François, the son of exiled former Haitian police chief Joseph Michel François, was killed in the northern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula.
A Haitian national with symptoms of cholera died in Haiti just two days after his Jan. 20 deportation from Florida by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
Hugo Chávez threatened to kick Coca-Cola out of the country if the company does not settle a pay dispute with striking workers, calling on Venezuelans to switch to guava juice.
Since early December, hundreds of private contractors of multinational banana corporation Banacol have illegally invaded and occupied the lands of Afro-Colombian “peace communities.”
Egyptian security forces in Rafah, the Sinai peninsula town bordering the Gaza Strip, came under attack by gunmen believed to be from the radical Islamist group Takfir Wal-Hijra.
