Mexico’s Finance Secretariat ruled that due to the crisis, exceptions can be made to a law banning foreign governments from owning Mexican banks—a reference to Citibank-owned Banamex.
The National Security Archive has released declassified documents showing the US government knew US-backed Guatemalan officials were behind the disappearance of thousands in the civil war.
Former US president Bill Clinton and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Haiti on March 9 along with a large group of private investors for a 24-hour visit they said was aimed at increasing international aid for the country…. Read moreHaiti: Lavalas marches, students protest
Negotiations continue 10 days after the French government signed an accord ending the general strike that had paralyzed Martinique since Feb. 5.
Rights organizations say more than 300 families have been displaced by the Peruvian army’s Plan “Excelencia 777,” launched to take Vizcatán zone from narco-trafficking and “terrorist” groups.
Colombia’s state oil company Ecopetrol is to enter territory inhabited by some of the world’s last uncontacted indigenous peoples in the Peruvian rainforest under an agreement reached this week.
In a move aimed at appeasing US Congressional opposition to the free trade agreement, Bogotá has ordered palm oil companies to return thousands of acres to displaced Afro-Colombian peasants.
Calling it a measure to “reunify the motherland,” Hugo Chávez dispatched army troops to seize Venezuela’s air and sea ports—a move decried by the opposition as a power grab.
Italy’s ruling right-wing parties—the Forza Italia and National Alliance, a direct descendant of Mussolini’s Fascist party—announced they will merge into a new “People of Freedom” bloc.
Some 130 were arrested at NATO’s headquarters in Brussels and Nieuw Milligen air base in the Netherlands in protests prompted by the upcoming 60th anniversary of the alliance’s founding.
In the first major Tibetan protests since last year’s uprising, hundreds of residents in Ragya, Qinghai province, attacked a police station, leading to the arrest of nearly 100 monks.
The US Justice Department filed lawsuits against Union Pacific Railroad Co. March 18 seeking $37 million in damages for allegedly failing to prevent its rail cars from being used to smuggle drugs into the country. US customs inspectors on at… Read moreNarco-imbroglio mires NAFTA trade
