Latin America solidarity activist Rev. Lucius Walker, 80, died of a heart attack at his home in Demarest, New Jersey. Walker, a Baptist minister, was also active in the US civil rights movement.
Puerto Rican politicians from across the spectrum praised leftist independence activist Juan Mari Brás, who died at 82 of lung cancer in his home in Río Pedras, San Juan.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) made an agreement in principle in Tegucigalpa for a standby loan to the Honduran government. This gives the country immediate access to $196 million.
Military units began carrying out street patrols in Honduran cities, mainly Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, in what the government said was an effort to help the police fight crime.
At least three people suffered serious injuries and 26 were arrested when fighting broke out between striking miners and others at the giant Cananea copper mine in the northern Mexican state of Sonora.
Albanians and Serbs clashed in the divided Kosova town of Mitrovica, apparently triggered by Albanians who were celebrating the defeat of Serbia’s national basketball team in a semi-final against Turkey.
The rally in Lower Manhattan in support of Cordoba House was far bigger and more spirited than the Islamophobe opposition—but led by a Stalinist cult that supported genocide against Bosnian Muslims.
Hundreds of protesters marched in Galkayo, a town in Somalia’s northern enclave of Puntland, against plans by a southern preacher in the US to hold a mass Koran-burning.
A Chinese prison on Sept. 9 released Chen Guangcheng, a blind Chinese human rights legal activist who has finished serving a four-year sentence for “organizing a mob to disturb traffic.”
The International Campaign for Human Right in Iran called for the immediate release of prominent human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, who was detained this week at Tehran’s Evin prison.
Cuba’s Fidel Castro, in an interview with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, warns Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against Holocaust-denial and anti-Semitism.
The 33 trapped Chilean miners may not receive any wages while they are trapped underground, a union official has claimed. The miners are expected to be trapped until year’s end.
