Puerto Ricans marched on San Juan’s Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport to protest plans to privatize the facility through a 40-year lease to an international consortium.
Protesters demonstrated against the Dominican government’s deals with a Canadian mining multinational, and with developers claiming titles to properties in an ecological reserve.
On Feb. 21 former Haitian “president for life” Jean-Claude (“Baby Doc”) Duvalier (1971-1986) once again defied an order to appear before an appeals court in Port-au-Prince that is considering whether he can be criminally charged for human rights violations committed… Read moreHaiti: Duvalier and UN blow off victims’ claims —again
The Haitian labor organizing group Batay Ouvriye reports that in early February Leo Vedél, a worker at the Premium Apparel assembly plant in Port-au-Prince, was assaulted and then fired when he demanded that he be paid the legal minimum wage for piece… Read moreHaiti: unionist is beaten up at Gildan supplier
Canadian companies plan to make $50 billion on a Dominican gold mine; Dominicans can look forward to getting $1.3 billion—and an environmental disaster.
Ex-dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier once again refused to attend a hearing about the atrocities committed during his regime, but a judge has told him to show up in court next time.
Haitian authorities marked the third anniversary of the devastating 2010 earthquake by evicting hundreds of quake victims from the park where they had been living.
A group of Haitian immigrants agreed to end an encampment they and family members held for more than a month in front of the Labor Ministry in Santo Domingo.
The US has “between five to seven different transition plans” for achieving a “democratic, market-oriented society” in Cuba, according to documents filed in federal court.
About 100 Haitian immigrant workers protested in front of the Labor Ministry in Santo Domingo, while hundreds more blocked a bridge at the border in the northwest.
A prosecutor met with former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide for about 30 minutes to discuss criminal complaints accusing Aristide of theft, swindling and abuse of confidence.
Spanish national Angel Carromero, sentenced to four years in Cuba for the car accident that killed dissidents Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero, will serve out his sentence in Spain.
