In comments before the Council on Foreign Relations, Hillary Clinton asserted that the US, Mexico and the Central American countries need to cooperate on an “equivalent” of Plan Colombia.
The Central American region is again being hit by devastating floods, in a rainy season that has wreaked destruction across the isthmus, leaving scores dead and thousands displaced.
Honduran police have blamed street gangs linked to Mexican drug cartels for the killing of at least 18 employees in a shoe factory in the northern industrial city of San Pedro Sula.
A Guatemalan judge ruled that three soldiers charged in connection with a 1982 peasant massacre that left more than 260 dead in a jungle village will face trial.
The Los Angeles Times sees communist agitators behind the uprising by Central American immigrants in Los Angeles’ Westlake district following the police shooting of a Guatemalan day-laborer.
Twelve people were injured when a bomb went off in front of the local office of the Administrative Security Department (DAS), Colombia’s secret police agency, in the southern city of Pasto.
The US military pact with Colombia that would open seven bases in the country to the Pentagon faces an uncertain future following a ruling of the Andean nation’s Constitutional Court.
The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a suit brought by the ACLU against a Boeing subsidiary in connection with its alleged role in the CIA “extraordinary rendition” program.
From the NY Times’ City Room blog, Sept. 8: Officer Resigns, Then Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter An off-duty police officer who struck and killed a woman in Brooklyn in 2009 pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Wednesday to second-degree… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Spain’s Supreme Court unanimously confirmed a lower court finding that judge Baltasar Garzón abused his power in opening an investigation of Franco-era war crimes, and must face trial.
The so-called “Burn a Koran Day” announced by a Gainesville preacher ignited protests for a second day in a row by hundreds of Afghans, who burned US flags and shouted “Death to America.”
From the NY Daily News, Sept. 4: Taxi smashes into East Village coffee shop; five people injured An out-of-control yellow cab crashed into an East Village coffee shop early Sunday, critically injuring an elderly man, police said. The customer, Preston… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
