The Caribbean
Haiti: government, UN evict more quake victims
The Haitian government and international agencies have intensified efforts to relocate Port-au-Prince residents left homeless by the January earthquake.
Central America
Honduras: OAS annual report cites rights violations
For the first time the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has included Honduras among the countries that it “believed warranted special attention.”
Central America
Honduras: Lobo settles with Aguán campesinos
Honduran president Porfirio Lobo signed an agreement with the Aguán campesino movement, granting some 2,600 families about 11,000 hectares of land.
The Andes
Cochabamba: will climate conference recognize “Table 18”?
As the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth opens in Cochabamba, Aymara indigenous leaders are demanding an “eighteenth table” on Bolivia’s social conflicts.
The Andes
Bolivia: Santa Cruz authorities won’t seat indigenous lawmakers
The conservative opposition government in Bolivia’s lowland department of Santa Cruz is refusing to recognize the election of two indigenous lawmakers to the local assembly
The Andes
World War 4 Report to blog Bolivia climate confab
World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg is in Cochabamba, Bolivia, to cover the alternative conference on climate change that President Evo Morales has called. The conference opens tomorrow, and we hope to be posting daily on-the-scene reports.
The Andes
Peru: campesinos block roads to protest mining operation
Residents of Islay, Peru, blocked the Panamerican Highway to protest a proposed copper project, which they charge places local water sources and agriculture at risk.
The Andes
Bolivia: remains of “disappeared” guerilla exhumed
Bolivia’s Justice Ministry announced that the remains of a presumed “disappeared” follower of Che Guevara’s guerilla movement were exhumed in the General Cemetary of La Paz.
The Andes
Masonic connection seen in Bolivian separatist plot
The government of Evo Morales charges that elite Masonic lodges helped organize and finance the “terrorist” conspiracy to launch a secessionist movement in Santa Cruz department.
The Andes
Campesino, squatter actions rock Bolivia
One was killed as police evicted squatters in Santa Cruz, while campesinos ransacked the intallations of a Sumitomo-owned mining company in Potosi to protest water pollution.
Iraq
WikiLeaks video on Iraq killings sparks furor
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is rejecting calls for a probe into a 2007 case of “collateral murder” in Baghdad by US forces, following the release of video footage on WikiLeaks.
Central Asia
China: Tibetan nomads hard hit in Qinghai earthquake
Tibetan nomads who have been forced into shoddy government housing in recent years have been hard hit in the Qinghai earthquake, the Free Tibet Campaign warns.