Mexico
Oaxaca: two dead as paras attack human rights caravan
Two are dead and at least five missing after a paramilitary ambush on a human rights caravan in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Southern Cone
Uruguay: junta foreign minister gets prison term
A Uruguayan judge handed down a 20-year term to ex-foreign minister Juan Carlos Blanco in the case of a “disappeared” schoolteacher.
The Caribbean
Haiti: government suspends forced evictions
The Haitian government declared a moratorium on evictions of homeless residents from improvised encampments on private property.
Central America
Guatemala: NGO blasts maquilas’ abuse of women
A new report from Doctors of the World finds dangerous and degrading conditions for women in Guatemalan maquiladoras.
Central America
Honduras: anti-sweatshop campaign hits Nike
The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin in Madison has announced that the institution is cancelling its sports apparel contract with Nike over conditions in the company’s Honduras maquilas.
The Caribbean
Puerto Rico: students strike against budget cuts
As of April 25 students were continuing an occupation of the Río Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) in San Juan to protest plans to cut next year’s budget by $100 million.
North America
Advocacy groups to challenge Arizona immigration law
Latino advocacy groups plan to challenge the constitutionality of Arizona’s new immigration law, asserting it permits racial profiling.
The Andes
Cochabamba: Evo offends global gays
Evo Morales has sparked international protests with his comments at the Cochabamba climate summit that eating hormone-laden chicken turns men gay.
Planet Watch
Cochabamba summit calls for ecological tribunal
The climate summit in Cochabamba, Bolivia, closed with a call for creation of an International Tribunal on Environmental and Climate Justice.
The Andes
Cochabamba: dissidents push limits of free speech
Defying an official ban, Aymara activists convened the dissident “Table 18” at the Cochabamba climate summit, on social conflicts related to climate change.
The Caribbean
Haiti: Clinton warns of violence like Mexico’s
Former US president Bill Clinton said that the international community needs to stay involved in Haiti if it wants to prevent violence from breaking out there.