Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council rejected 16 of the 69 parties that submitted candidates for upcoming legislative elections—including the Lavalas Family of ex-president Jean Bertrand Aristide.
Thousands of Uruguayans took to the streets to celebrate the victory of José “Pepe” Mujica, a former leader of the Tupamaro urban guerilla group, in a runoff election for the presidency.
Coptic Christian shop owners in the Egyptian town of Farshoot are refusing to reopen their stores until the government compensates them for damages in two days of rioting over the weekend.
Swiss voters approved a ban on minarets at the urging of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party. Switzerland’s 400,000 Muslims include many Bosnian and Kosovar refugees from ex-Yugoslavia.
An attacker on a motorcycle shot and killed indigenous leader and anti-mining activist Mariano Abarca outside his home in Chicomuselo, in the mountains of southern Mexico’s Chiapas state.
The US Supreme Court vacated a Second Circuit decision that required the Pentagon to release photos of abused detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan.
An Algerian court sentenced in absentia Guantánamo detainee Ahmed Belbacha to 20 years in prison. Belbacha says he fears torture in Algeria and has requested asylum in the US.
Israel’s Knesset unanimously approved a resolution demanding that Argentina extradite those colonels and generals involved in mass killings during the country’s military dictatorship.
After missing work for several days, José Emilio Galindo Robles, the regional director for Radio Universidad de Guadalajara in Ciudad Guzmán, was found dead inside his home.
Our November issue featured the stories “Venezuelan Labor Between Chávez and the Golpistas” by Venezuelan journalist Rafael Uzcategui writing for the Spanish anarchist journal Tierra y Libertad, and “Venezuela: Demarcation Without Land” by José Quintero Weir writing for the Caracas… Read moreIndigenous and labor rights in Venezuela: do our readers care?
Police with water cannon fired tear gas and rubber bullets at a protest opposing the World Trade Organization summit that opens this week in Geneva.
Denmark’s parliament passed legislation giving police sweeping powers of “pre-emptive” arrest and extending sentences for acts of civil disobedience ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit.
