The American Civil Liberties Union has declared the civil and human rights situation in Puerto Rico a “high priority for the organization,” citing “repression against the student movement.”
Chief US federal district judge José Fusté sent Puerto Rican Bar Association (CAPR) president Osvaldo Toledo Martínez to prison for refusing to pay a $10,000 fine for contempt of court.
Haiti’s immigration service has issued a diplomatic passport for former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who has lived in exile in South Africa since he was forced from office in 2004.
A confrontation between police and University of Puerto Rico students at the Río Piedras campus in San Juan quickly escalated into what appeared to be the most violent event in two months of protests.
Students protesting an $800 tuition surcharge imposed this year at the University of Puerto Rico marked the beginning of the spring semester with a two-hour march and rally.
Jean-Michel François, the son of exiled former Haitian police chief Joseph Michel François, was killed in the northern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula.
A Haitian national with symptoms of cholera died in Haiti just two days after his Jan. 20 deportation from Florida by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
Student strikers at the University of Puerto Rico continued using mass civil disobedience to push their demand that the university drop an $800 tuition surcharge, with campuses occupied.
Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) has announced its new schedule for the long-delayed runoffs for the presidency and for many legislative seats.
The US is planning for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) to remain in the country through 2013, according to a confidential US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks.
While media attention remains focused on the return of former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier to Haiti, disputes over the Nov. 28 presidential and legislative elections continue.
At a Haiti press conference, ex-dictator “Baby Doc” Duvalier expressed “profound sorrow” on behalf of his “compatriots who legitimately claim that they were victims” of his regime.
