Textile workers leaving their factory shift in Hilla were among hundreds of Iraqis injured and 85 killed in a series of bomb attacks across the country on the bloodiest day this year.
Two Colombian soldiers, Sgt. Pablo Emilio Moncayo and Pvt. Josué Daniel Calvo, returned to their hometowns following their release by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
An association of 90 groups held a rally in Mexico City to call for a boycott of the seaside resort city of Cancún as a protest against Quintana Roo state’s anti-choice policies.
The Vietnamese telecommunications company Viettel formally acquired 60% of the shares in Haiti’s state-owned phone company, Télécommunications d’Haiti (Haiti Téléco).
The Haitian Senate approved an 18-month extension of the state of emergency President René Préval decreed after the Jan. 12 earthquake devastated the capital area—sparking opposition protests.
Mario Ernesto Villanueva Madrid, ex-governor of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, was extradited to the US to face charges of accepting some $20 million in bribes from the Juárez Cartel.
A Mexican military investigation found that three children killed on a highway in Tamaulipas were caught in the crossfire of rival narco gangs—but survivors say soldiers fired without cause.
A Honduran truth and reconciliation commission began investigating the June 2009 coup that removed Manuel Zelaya from power—as a wave of killings of journalists has terrorized the country.
Sendero Luminoso, thought to be confined to a small pocket of high jungle known as the Apurimac-Ene River Valley, launched an attack on a coca-eradication team in the Upper Huallaga Valley.
Paraguay is moving towards a “state of exception” in response to the emergence of the rebel Army of the Paraguayan People (EPP), with speculation of ties to Colombia’s FARC.
In a case sensationalized by the Bolivian press as a crackdown on a “Norwegian Cartel,” two Norwegians were sentenced on charges of attempting to smuggle 22 kilos of cocaine out of the country.
The five ex-military chiefs who made up the Bolivian High Command in 2003 were cited for the apparent destruction of Armed Forces documents related to “Black October” violence of that year.
