Neo-Nazis attempted to disrupt the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Velvet Revolution in Prague, and clashed with police who tried to keep them from marching on the main parade.
A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York City has affirmed the conviction of civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart, and ordered her to begin her prison sentence.
Rodolfo Padilla, mayor of San Pedro Sula, joined a growing list of candidates who have withdrawn from the Honduran elections to protest control of the process by the de facto regime.
Tens of thousands of unionists, campesinos and students protested in Mexico City and across the country in solidarity with the 44,000 electrical workers sacked by President Felipe Calderón.
A Mexican judge ruled that evidence the government presented against activist Juan Manuel Martínez for the murder of New York-based journalist Brad Will was “false” and “prefabricated.”
Student activists blocked roads in Panama to protest what they called plans for US military bases. Authorities say the bases will be Panamanian, but part of the US-backed Mérida Initiative.
One was killed and one wounded in protests over power outages in the northern Dominican province of Santiago last week. At least two others have died in protests over blackouts this year.
Amnesty International has called on Brazil and Paraguay to redouble efforts to find an indigenous teacher who has been missing since a violent eviction of peasants at a border village.
Illinois politicians are divided on an Obama administration plan to move Guantánamo Bay detainees to the state’s Thomson Correctional Facility.
The Pentagon is opening a new detention facility in Afghanistan amid charges from human rights groups that Bagram air base is becoming the “new Guantánamo.”
Business leaders in Ciudad Juárez are calling on the United Nations to send peacekeepers to police the Mexican border city in the face of escalating drug-related violence.
A mob overpowered agents of Colombia’s secret police as they tried to arrest a guerilla suspect in Cali. The suspect, who the government says posed as a human rights activist, escaped.
