The White House asked Congress for $410 million in Merida Initiative drug war aid to Mexico and Central America for FY 2011, despite ongoing concerns about human rights.
Sharp debate over the direction of Mexico’s narco war has broken out in the country’s Congress in the wake of twin massacres in Ciudad Juárez and Torreón last weekend.
Gregoria Crisanta, an opponent of the local Marlin gold mine, was was freed by a campesino roadblock after being detained by police in San Miguel Ixtahuacán, Guatemala.
The International Trade Union Confederation strongly condemned the murder of Pedro Antonio García, a member of the Malacatán Municipal Workers Union in San Marcos, Guatemala.
An account from the pan-Latin American Matriz del Sur agency claims that Somalia’s pirates are seeking to send booty as aid to Haiti’s earthquake victims.
Iraq’s Ministry for Human Rights will file a lawsuit against the US and UK over their use of depleted uranium bombs based on findings of an increase in birth defects.
A jury in New York convicted Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman with alleged ties to al-Qaeda, on charges of attempting to murder US personnel at an Afghan facility.
The Swiss Federal Council announced that it would accept two Uighur detainees from Guantánamo Bay, despite warnings from China that the move would hurt relations.
Under pressure from Republicans for a military tribunals, Attorney General Eric Holder defended his decision to charge the suspected “Christmas Day bomber” in federal court.
The deaths of three US Special Forces troops in a Taliban suicide attack in Pakistan reveal the existence of a military assistance program that authorities have sought to keep quiet.
The International Criminal Court’s Appeals Chamber reversed a Pre-Trial Chamber decision that denied the application for genocide charges against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
The US and Russia have reached an agreement for the first nuclear weapons treaty since 1991, calling for reductions in both the number of warheads and delivery systems.
