Harakmbut leaders in Peru’s Amazon region of Madre de Dios issued a statement imposing a one-week deadline for Hunt Oil to quit their territory before indigenous communities physically expel them.
Two Honduran presidential candidates announced that they will not participate in the Nov. 29 general elections unless ousted President Manuel Zelaya is returned to power.
Honduran business leader Adolfo Facussé was deported after flying to Miami, apparently the casualty of a State Department decision to revoke visas of those involved in the coup d’etat.
Striking subway workers in Buenos Aires opened the turnstiles for two hours, letting commuters ride for free.
Haitian riot police clashed with students occupying campus buildings in Port-au-Prince in solidarity with workers demanding a minimum wage hike.
Guatemalan and UN authorities arrested nine suspects in the murder of attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg. The search for the “intellectual authors” is ongoing, authorities said.
Self-defense committees in indigenous communities of Peru’s conflicted Apurímac and Ene River Valley (VRAE) received 400 rifles from the army to fight “narco-terrorist” groups operating in the zone.
The same day a US Special Forces helicopter raid reportedly killed a Shabab insurgent leader in Somalia, residents at the southern village of Erile reported a second chopper raid by French forces
Human rights activists reacted to disclosures that the US government is planning to introduce measures to give inmates at Afghanistan’s notorious Bagram prison the chance to challenge their detention.
Israeli soldiers used tear gas against Friday anti-wall protests in the West Bank villages of Bilin and Nilin.
Several Israeli military vehicles entered the Gaza Strip near al-Bureij refugee camp, according to local Palestinian sources.
Thousands of students marched in the northwestern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula to protest plans by the coup-installed regime to reinstitute compulsory military service.
