Paraguay’s President Fernando Lugo fired the head of the armed forces two days after he sacked the commanders of the army, navy and air force amid rumors of a coup.
Seven Yanomami Indians in Venezuela have died from an outbreak of suspected “swine flu” in the last two weeks. Another 1,000 Yanomami are reported to have caught the virulent strain of flu.
The Defense Ministry in Sanaa denied local media reports that Saudi jets struck within Yemeni territory after Houthi rebels seized territory along the kingdom’s southern border.
An Australian detainment camp for asylum seekers on remote Christmas Island is being protested as the “new Guantánamo Bay.” A group of Sri Lankan “boat people” are now en route to the camp.
The trial of Argentina’s last military ruler, Reynaldo Bignone, opened this week at a Buenos Aires sports arena, attended by hundreds of relatives of his victims from the “dirty war” years.
Hugo Chávez threatened to seal off Venezuela’s border with Colombia following the killing of two Civil Guards by apparent paramilitaries—as Bogotá’s new pact for US military bases advances.
Margarito Montes, leader of the General Popular Worker and Campesino Union (UGOCP), was assassinated with 14 family members and comrades when their convoy was ambushed by gunmen.
Reading past the headlines in the notorious the Chongqing corruption trial reveals that the crime machine served as local enforcers for post-socialist China’s new landed oligarchy.
A court in Milan convicted 23 ex-CIA agents in absentia for the 2003 “rendition” of Egyptian terror suspect Abu Omar. Local CIA station chief Robert Seldon Lady was sentenced to eight years.
Manuel Zelaya asks Hillary Clinton “to clarify to the Honduran people if the position condemning the coup d’etat has been changed or modified” in response to State Department equivocation.
The National Front of Resistance to the Coup d’Etat in Honduras issued a statement calling the new pact “a popular victory,” while dissident voices denounced it as a “reactionary accord.”
Pressure from investors and widespread repudiation of legal justifications for the coup prompted the US-brokered agreement to return Manuel Zelaya to power in Honduras.
