Venezuela and the US are both seeking the extradition of notorious drug lord Walid Makled AKA “The Turk,” who was arrested in a joint operation by Colombian police and the DEA in Cúcuta.
President Evo Morales has declared a state of emergency in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz department, one of four in the nation battling wildfires that are consuming the eastern rainforests.
Six city police officers were arrested in connection with the killing of a mayor in a suburb of Monterrey, in northern Mexico. Santiago Mayor Edelmiro Cavazos had reportedly received threats form narco gangs.
The UN has issued an urgent call for the lifting of Israeli military restrictions on civilian access to Gaza Strip lands, finding they have dramatically affected the livelihoods of farmers and fishermen.
The US Army’s 4th Stryker Brigade crossed into Kuwait—supposedly the last “combat brigade” to leave Iraq. But private contractors will be boosting their presence in Iraq by nearly double.
John Joseph Jay of American Freedom Defense Initiative names as one of his “heroes and inspirations” Meir Kahane—founder of two State Department-listed Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
Author William Dalrymple weighs in with a defense of Sufism and the “Ground Zero Mosque” on the Times op-ed page—but in terms that smack of a neocon strategy to groom domesticated “good” Muslims.
Colombian congressman Iván Cepeda presented a slander case against ex-President Alvaro Uribe to the World Court for his accusations that the San José de Apartadó peace community is tied to the FARC.
Hundreds of supporters of Puerto Rican independence gathered at the Ateneo Puertorriqueño in San Juan to commemorate Dolores (“Lolita”) Lebrón Sotomayor, a “mythic figure” who died at the age of 90.
The Mexican government’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) issued recommendations in the case of two graduate students killed during a gunfight between soldiers and alleged drug cartel members.
Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) decided by a 9-2 vote that same-sex marriages performed in the Federal District (DF, Mexico City) are valid in all the country’s states.
Hundreds marched in Changuinola, Panama, in memory of two workers who were killed in July while protesting legislation opposed by unionists and environmental activists.
