Alberto Pizango, exiled president of Peru’s national organization for Amazonian indigenous peoples, AIDESEP, was arrested at Lima’s airport as he returned from Nicaragua.
As Obama pledges to mobilize 1,200 National Guard troops to the Mexican border, Fox News ups the ante with claims of a Somali terrorist threat in Texas.
Gregorio Sánchez, gubernatorial candidate from Quintana Roo, was arrested by Mexican federal police on drug trafficking charges—but his supporters say the bust is politically motivated.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled that Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the cleric accused by India of plotting the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, cannot be imprisoned due to lack of evidence.
The Indian government has offered to hold talks with the Naxalite insurgents following a series of audacious attacks that have hardliners calling for air-strikes on their strongholds.
New Yorker Lori Berenson was paroled from a Peruvian prison after spending 15 years behind bars—sparking protest from hardliners in Peru’s political establishment.
Gun battles raging in the Jamaican capital have left more than 60 people dead as troops fan out across the city hunting for accused drug kingpin Christopher “Dudus” Coke.
An ex-Colombian police major has come forward to allege that Santiago Uribe, younger brother of President Alvaro Uribe, led a paramilitary group in the 1990s that killed suspected “subversives.”
European and Latin American social movements meeting in Madrid denounced the US and European response to the Haiti earthquake as using a “humanitarian alibi” for “geopolitical interests.”
Union leaders in Puerto Rico claimed success for a 24-hour general strike held to support students striking against a proposed $100 million budget cut, who have met police repression.
Five participants in an open-ended hunger strike by dozens of laid-off Mexican electrical workers were hospitalized as the protest reached the four-week mark.
Running battles between police and gunmen of the Shower Posse gang turned part of Jamaica’s capital Kingston into a warzone, with reports of explosions and civilian casualties.
