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.
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.
