A UN human rights panel warns that the Honduran coup regime is hiring mercenaries from Colombia, as a Bogotá daily reports that ex-paramilitaries are being recruited.
Supporters of deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya warned that a crackdown on opposition media could derail talks aimed at resolving the country’s political crisis.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe demanded that his ministers investigate the jailbreak that freed guerilla leader Gustavo Anibal Giraldo Quinchia AKA “Pablito.”
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales denied that his government is engaged in a regional arms race, insisting the purchase of six Chinese military jets is only for drug enforcement.
Some 1,000 workers at Shougang Hierro, Peru’s only iron ore producer, have gone on strike demanding higher wages and better working conditions.
Thich Nhat Hanh has protested the eviction of his followers from a monastery in southern Vietnam’s Lam Dong province. Vietnamese intellectuals have issued a petition to support them.
India’s Naxalite guerillas have broached a ceasefire and dialogue with the government after an audacious attack on a police patrol in Maharashtra that left 17 dead.
Shabab insurgents amputated a foot and a hand from each of two young men accused of robbery in the southern port of Kismayu. The militants compelled thousands of residents to watch.
Dissident rebel factions in Niger are refusing to honor a peace deal brokered between the government and Tuareg guerillas by Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi.
The issue of Western Sahara, Africa’s last colony, was discussed in depth at the UN’s Decolonization Committee meeting in New York this week.
The World Bank, EU and NATO have all restored full ties to Mauritania—despite charges of fraud in elections claimed by coup leader Gen. Ould Abdel Aziz.
After two days of protests at the IMF/World Bank meeting in Istanbul, reports are mounting of arrested youth brutally beaten by police while in custody.
