Four Puerto Rican union leaders chained themselves to the gates of the governor’s official residence to protest plans to lay off 16,970 of the island’s 180,000 public employees.
Brazilian activists rallied and delivered an open letter to the UN Information Center in Rio de Janeiro opposing the continued presence of Brazilian troops in Haiti.
Peru’s Indigenous Affairs Department, INDEPA, discovered evidence of an uncontacted tribe in a remote region of the Amazon. President Alan García has denied the existence of such tribes.
Ecuador’s indigenous movement launched a national mobilization to oppose President Rafael Correa’s pending water law, erecting roadblocks on several sections along the Panamerican highway.
Two Qeqchi Maya indigenous leaders were shot and killed and over a dozen wounded near the site of a shuttered Canadian-owned nickel mine in Guatemala.
The Canada-based Linear Gold Corp. ceded to pressure from indigenous communities who oppose plans to exploit gold and silver deposits at Ixhuatán in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas.
Four suspected militants were killed when a presumed US drone fired at two vehicles in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal area. It was the third suspected drone strike in 24 hours.
Tribal elders said that eight people—at least five of them civilians—were killed in a US airstrike on a village in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province.
Argentina’s former President Carlos Menem was charged with obstructing an investigation into the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Jewish Mutual Aid Association (AMIA) in Buenos Aires.
The American Civil Liberties Union will represent University of Pittsburgh students arrested during the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh—some of whom say they weren’t even protesting.
Internationally-known Mexican environmentalist and forest defender Felipe Arreaga was killed while driving his ATV in Petatlan, Guerrero.
Taking a cue from Argentina’s Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, relatives of disappeared persons staged a loud demonstration in Tijuana.
