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.
Thousands of people marched in front of the Puerto Rican police headquarters on Roosevelt Avenue in San Juan’s Hato Rey neighborhood to demand the removal of police chief José Figueroa Sancha.
Exactly six months after an earthquake devastated much of southern Haiti, a storm caused serious damage in a camp authorities had set up for quake survivors north of Port-au-Prince.
Haitian president René Préval rejected changes US senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) proposed for presidential and legislative elections that are now scheduled for Nov. 28.
Dozens of demonstrators were injured at Puerto Rico’s Capitol building when riot police used batons and tear gas to keep hundreds of students from entering a session of the Legislature.
Hundreds of Puerto Ricans marched in the island’s 20th Pride event, held in San Juan’s beachfront El Condado neighborhood, especially to denounce recent hate crimes against LGBT people.
Students and the Board of Trustees at the University of Puerto Rico reached an agreement to end a two-month strike that had closed 10 of the public university’s 11 campuses.
In meetings with striking students, officials announced that the University of Puerto Rico was $200 million in debt and that they intended to cover it with tuition surcharges.
