Hundreds of Ciudad Juárez residents held a “March of Anger” against President Felipe Calderón’s army crackdown that has failed to curb rampant gang killings in the border city.
Bolivia’s Evo Morales plans to put the coca back in cola with a new coca-infused drink dubbed Coca Colla—the last word being a reference to the country’s Aymara indigenous people.
President Evo Morales signed a decree creating the Bolivian Space Agency, to build and launch a satellite—named for anti-colonial rebel Túpac Katari—with Chinese oversight.
Iranian security forces clashed with protesters and arrested dozens as official commemorations were held to mark the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The UK’s appeal court ruled the government must disclose previously withheld text outlining the apparent torture of ex-Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed.
Meeting in Porto Alegre for the 10th annual World Social Forum, 24 Latin American popular organizations issued a statement denouncing a “new, aggressive escalation of imperialism.”
Several hundred Haitians marched in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Pétionville to protest corruption and profiteering in the distribution of food to earthquake survivors.
Puerto Rican independence activist Avelino González Claudio, suspected leader in the Macheteros rebel group, pleaded guilty to armed robbery of $7 million from a Wells Fargo depot.
According to the Unitary Workers Central (CUT), 40 union leaders and activists were killed in Colombia during 2009—representing 60% of all trade unionists killed worldwide.
A Colombian prosecutor called on the country’s Vice President Francisco Santos to testify about allegations of collaboration by ex-paramilitary warlord Salvatore Mancuso.
Three of 21 drug suspects arrested in a joint US-Colombian operation are closely linked to Joaquin Guzmán AKA “El Chapo,” Mexico’s most wanted drug lord, authorities say.
Iranian authorities have arrested seven for allegedly planning to provoke riots on the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Several are charged with being in the employ of the CIA.
