Far-right Cuban activist Orlando Bosch died in Miami at the age of 84. Accused in a number of terrorist actions against Cuba, he denied he was involved in a string of 1997 attacks on hotels in Havana.
The “international community” is pressuring Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council to change 18 questionable decisions in the Parliament race—as presidential candidate “Sweet Micky” Martelly is accused of intimidating journalists.
Workers at a Haitian telephone company privatized last year went on strike to demand a full 36 months’ salary in compensation for their impending layoffs.
A federal jury in El Paso, Texas, acquitted Cuban-born former CIA “asset” Luis Posada Carriles of 11 counts of fraud and obstruction of justice, handing US prosecutors their latest defeat in the case.
Popular singer Michel (“Sweet Micky”) Martelly defeated fellow right-winger Mirlande Hyppolite Manigat in the race for Haiti’s presidency—but real power still lies with the multinational Interim Haiti Recovery Commission.
Sae-A Trading Co. Ltd, South Korea’s leading apparel manufacturer, is pushing ahead with plans to open a large garment assembly plant near the coastal village of Caracol in Haiti’s agricultural Northeast department.
The number of displaced Haitians living in camps in the Port-au-Prince area after the January 2010 earthquake has now fallen to about 680,000. But those who left the camps haven’t necessarily found better shelter.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wrote the US Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division asking the agency to conclude an ongoing investigation of alleged abuses by the Puerto Rican police.
Observers said Haiti’s March 20 presidential and legislative runoff elections were relatively calm—at least in comparison to the chaotic first round on Nov. 28.
A coalition of Puerto Rican feminist organizations held a march to the Río Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), the site of months of student protests against an $800 tuition surcharge.
The National Ballet of Cuba, under the direction of the renowned Alicia Alonso, marked International Women’s Day with a special performance honoring women heroes of the 1959 Revolution.
Some 17 Haitian groups have launched a new campaign against the neoliberal economic policies that Haiti has followed under successive governments over the last three decades.
