Mexico
Mexico: arrest in reporter’s death
Mexican authorities have arrested five men linked to the Zetas narco gang in the assassination of Torreón newspaper reporter Eliseo Barrón.
Mexico
Mexico: Monterrey cops lose cell phones
Having already confiscated their assault rifles, authorities in Nuevo Leon state are barring Monterrey police from carrying cellphones to keep them from communicating with narco bosses.
The Caucasus
Judge assassinated in Ingushetia
Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a senior judge in Russia’s volatile southern republic of Ingushetia, the latest in a series of attacks in the largely Muslim region.
Afghanistan
Pakistan: Islamists blow up mosques —again
Militants bombed mosques in two cities in Pakistan, killing at least eight people, including a cleric who was an outspoken critic of the Taliban.
The Amazon
Peru: congress suspends decrees on Amazon resources as protests mount
Peru’s congress temporarily suspended two decrees issued by President Alan García that would open vast areas of the Amazon to corporate exploitation, as protests mount across the country.
Central America
Nicaragua: Miskito elders declare independence
A Miskito Council of Elders on Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast have announced their secession from the country. The ruling Sandinista government charges the US embassy fomented the move.
The Amazon
Nicaragua grants asylum to Peruvian indigenous leader
By order of President Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua granted asylum to Alberto Pizango, the Peruvian indigenous leader wanted on charges of sedition for leading protests in the Amazon.
South Asia
Kashmir: police fire on protesters
Security forces fired on protesters in Indian-controlled Kashmir, wounding at least seven in the worst clash since unrest broke out last week over the deaths of two young women.
Southeast Asia
Thailand: gunmen kill 11 in mosque attack
At least 11 were killed and 18 others wounded when gunmen opened fire on a mosque in Joh-i-Rong district of southern Thailand’s Narathiwat province during evening prayers.
Watching the Shadows
Holocaust Museum shooting: global trend
The deadly assault on the Holocaust Museum in Washington was presaged a month earlier by a neo-Nazi shooting attack on a group of ex-death camp inmates commemorating their liberation in Austria.
The Amazon
Peru: labor, rights groups condemn killing of Amazon protesters
Peru’s largest labor confederation, the CGTP, condemned “the slaughter ordered by the government of President Alan García,” referring to the repression of indigenous protests in the Amazon.
Central America
Guatemala: campesinos block roads, demand land
Thousands of campesinos blocked roads across Guatemala in a nationwide protest to demand that the government carry out agrarian reform and instate a debt forgiveness program.