Indigenous protesters rallied in Quito to demand the release of three leaders of the Amazonian Shuar people who they say are being framed in the death of a Shuar teacher killed by police.
The Muslim Brotherhood met with Vice President Omar Suleiman, but the two sides remain at odds over the demand that Mubarak step down. Tahrir Square remains occupied by protesters.
At least 20 are dead in two days of clashes in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, as a pro-Khartoum militia refused to withdraw to the North following the vote for secession.
Two were killed in a Thai-Cambodian border clash at a contested ancient temple, while presumed Muslim separatists escalated armed attacks in Thailand’s south.
Gunmen assassinated the security chief at a Monterrey prison and the newly appointed police chief in Nuevo Laredo amid a new wave of violence in northern Mexico.
Campesino leaders report army abuses against local indigenous peasants in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz since a “state of siege” was declared there.
The National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP) marched in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, in solidarity with the protest movement in Egypt, blocking traffic on a major thoroughfare.
Ngobe protesters streamed into Panama’s capital city and blocked the street in front of the Legislative Palace to protest their exclusion from an committee on the mineral code.
The North Cauca Association of Indigenous Councils in southeast Colombia’s Cauca department has implemented its own re-immersion program for demobilized guerillas.
A Peruvian appeals court rejected the government’s petition to overturn a lower court’s decision to grant parole to Lori Berenson, a US citizen held since 1995 for collaboration with guerillas.
Coca growers gathered in cities across Bolivia to hold peaceful demonstrations in support of their government’s proposed amendment to the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.
The Hunt Oil-led consortium that operates Peru’s massive Camisea gas field is deadlocked in royalty talks with the government—raising questions about plans for massive expansion.
