Chevron asked the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague to shift responsibility to Ecuador for paying any money that Amazon residents might win in a suit over environmental damage.
Brazilian and US commerce representatives ratified a plan to allow Brazilian companies operating in Haiti to export products to the US without paying customs fees.
Jesús Canahuati, former president of the Honduran Maquiladora Association (AHM), protested that the coup regime’s two-day curfew alone had cost the country $50 million a day.
Honduras’ de facto government backed off from an emergency decree that barred protests and limited free speech after congressional leaders warned that they would not support the measure.
Yuracare indigenous people and coca-growers clashed over control of land in Isiboro National Park in northern Bolivia, leaving one dead.
An officer of Peru’s National Police was killed as protesting metal workers clashed with security forces at the economically troubled La Oroya smelter.
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya charged that “there are death squads” operating in in the country that the world doesn’t know about.
As international experts gather in Lima to debate the impacts of global warming on the Andean region, local campesinos are already feeling its effects in Huaraz.
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has reportedly taken refuge in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, and is calling for resistance leaders to converge on the capital.
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.
