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.
Thousands of peasant farmers gathered in the main plaza in Hinche, a city in Haiti’s Central Plateau, to protest a donation of about 476 metric tons of hybrid seeds from Monsanto.
Edmond Mulet, acting head of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), issued an apology for an incursion by a group of Brazilian soldiers into the State University of Haiti (UEH).
Barack Obama signed into law a measure intended to promote renewed development of the low-wage apparel assembly industry in Haiti—protested by activists as a “humanitarian alibi.”
Gun battles raging in the Jamaican capital have left more than 60 people dead as troops fan out across the city hunting for accused drug kingpin Christopher “Dudus” Coke.
European and Latin American social movements meeting in Madrid denounced the US and European response to the Haiti earthquake as using a “humanitarian alibi” for “geopolitical interests.”
