Haitians protested in Port-au-Prince, Hinche, St-Marc and other cities to mark the 95th anniversary of the start of the 1915-1934 US military occupation of their country—and protest the new UN occupation.
Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretariat announced that the government of President Felipe Calderón is normalizing diplomatic relations with Honduras, broken off after last year’s coup.
Nike, Inc. announced that it is paying $1.54 million to some 1,600 workers laid off in last year’s closure of two Nike subcontractors in the Choloma region of Honduras.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issued a statement strongly condemning the murder of Wayuu indigenous leader Luis Alfredo Socarras Pimienta in Colombia's Guajira region.
Peru will cancel the license of the US company Doe Run for a smelter complex at La Oroya, Junín region in the central Andes, said to be one of the most polluted locales on the planet.
Mexican army Special Forces troops killed Ignacio Coronel Villarreal AKA “Nacho”—a leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. But the cartel’s top kingpin, Joaquín Guzmán AKA “El Chapo,” remains at large.
US Trade Representative Ron Kirk announced that the US will file a case against Guatemala for labor rights violations under terms of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).
A new report by the interfaith peace group Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) details how US funding to the Colombian military supports army units whose members have killed hundreds of civilians.
With banners reading “Defend the Rainforest” and “No Dams on Our Rivers,” indigenous followers of the Native Federation of the Rio Madre de Dios (FENAMAD) marched on the Peruvian jungle city of Puerto Maldonada July 28. As Peru celebrated its Independence Day, much of the southern regions of Cusco, Puno, Madre de Dios and Apurímac were paralyzed by a general strike to call a halt to the export of natural gas from the Camisea field in the rainforest of Cusco region, as well as construction of the Inambari hydro-electric plant. It is the second general strike in as many months to halt traffic and business in Peru’s Southern Macro-Region—and this time the strike has been declared open-ended.
Photo: FENAMAD
In a move protested by rights groups, French President Nicolas Sarkozy will evict some 300 squatter camps in a sweeping crackdown on Roma immigrants and “travellers.”
Amid the US military documents released by WikiLeaks are nearly 200 involving Task Force 373, a unit charged with killing combatants in Afghanistan, but also responsible for numerous civilian deaths.
A federal judge issued a premilinary injunction against several provisions of the controversial Arizona immigration law, which is set to take effect this week—but failed to halt the law entirely.
