After 90 days of negotiations with unions and social organizations, the government of right-wing Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli approved an agreement to rescind a controversial labor law.
After almost 20 years, a former Colombian army officer was sentenced to 44 years in prison for his role in the deaths of over 245 civilians in the Trujillo Massacres between 1986 and 1994.
The severed head of Rolando Flores, a Mexican investigator looking into the disappearance of Texas reporter David Hartley, was delivered to authorities in northern Mexico’s Tamaulipas state.
Unknown assailants on a motorcycle assassinated Colombian indigenous leader Rodolfo Maya Aricape as he left a community meeting in the hamlet of López Adentro, in violence-torn Cauca department.
Survival International is warning the United Nations of massive oil operations planned for the northern Peruvian Amazon that could decimate uncontacted tribal peoples in the area.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced that police have arrested Mal Rt CEO Zoltan Bakonyi on criminal negligence charges for the company’s role in last week’s Akja chemical spill.
An Israeli military court sentenced non-violent protest organizer Abdallah Abu Rahmah of the West Bank’s Bil’in village to 12 months imprisonment, with a six-month suspended sentence.
The Israeli cabinet approved an amendment to the country’s citizenship law that would require those seeking citizenship to pledge allegiance to Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state.”
A group of 45 US Congress members called on the United States not to support presidential and legislative elections in Haiti in November if 14 political parties continue to be excluded from the ballot.
Former US president Bill Clinton and Haitian leaders met with the group monitoring international earthquake recovery aid to hear proposals that benefit the private sector in the donor countries.
Ten indigenous Mapuche prisoners in Chile’s southern Araucanía region agreed to end a liquids-only hunger strike protesting the use of an “anti-terrorism” measure against indigenous activists.
Bolivian newspapers engaged in a protest against a proposed anti-racism law they claim would hurt freedom of expression, all running the headline “There is no democracy without freedom of expression.”
