Central America
Honduras: claims and counter-claims over Zelaya anti-Semitism
Did Manuel Zelaya really claim that Israeli mercenaries are poisoning him with high-frequency radiation waves? (And could it really be true?)
Central America
Honduras: maquila owners call for intervention
Adolfo Facussé, president of the National Association of Industries of Honduras (ANDI), is proffering a proposal for a multinational intervention force in the Central American country.
Mexico
Mexico: government to bust electrical workers?
Mexican Electrical Workers Union members are guarding the facilities of the Central Light and Power Company amid claims of a government plot to provoke a blackout and blame the workers.
The Caribbean
Puerto Rico: plan 1-day strike against layoffs
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.
The Caribbean
Brazil: activists call for end of Haiti occupation
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.
The Amazon
Peru: government discovers evidence of “uncontacted” tribe
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.
The Andes
Ecuador’s indigenous movement mobilizes to defend water
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.
Central America
Guatemala: killings linked to Canadian mineral interest?
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.
Mexico
Chiapas: indigenous victory over mineral interest
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.
Afghanistan
US still bombing Pakistan
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.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: US bombs civilians —again?
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.
Southern Cone
Argentina: ex-prez charged with blocking terror blast probe
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.