Days after Fidel Castro told a reporter “The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore,” the government announced plans to lay off more than half a million workers from the public sector.
Latin America solidarity activist Rev. Lucius Walker, 80, died of a heart attack at his home in Demarest, New Jersey. Walker, a Baptist minister, was also active in the US civil rights movement.
Puerto Rican politicians from across the spectrum praised leftist independence activist Juan Mari Brás, who died at 82 of lung cancer in his home in RÃo Pedras, San Juan.
Cuba’s Fidel Castro, in an interview with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, warns Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against Holocaust-denial and anti-Semitism.
Haitian students announced they are planning to file complaints with international agencies about a campus invasion involving soldiers from the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti.
In the largest protest to date by Haitians left homeless by the massive January earthquake, hundreds of people marched in Port-au-Prince to demand immediate measures to provide decent housing.
A one-day strike by Puerto Rican teachers over budget issues and the need for additional teachers shut down about 90% of the island’s 1,500 public schools over the weekend.
Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council approved 19 and rejected 15 of the 34 who applied to run for the presidency in elections scheduled for Nov. 28. Hip-hop star Wyclef Jean was among the rejected.
Hundreds of supporters of Puerto Rican independence gathered at the Ateneo Puertorriqueño in San Juan to commemorate Dolores (“Lolita”) Lebrón Sotomayor, a “mythic figure” who died at the age of 90.
Two men charged with plotting to blow up New York’s John F. Kennedy airport were found guilty by a federal jury in Brooklyn, as Trinidad announced plans to probe the 1990 Islamist coup attempt.
A total of 33 candidates met the deadline for filing to run for president in Haiti’s November elections. But critics assert that real power lies with Bill Clinton, who “reigns as lord and master over Haiti.”
Haitians protested in Port-au-Prince, Hinche, St-Marc and other cities to mark the 95th anniversary of the start of the 1915-1934 US military occupation of their country—and protest the new UN occupation.
