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.”
Union leaders in Puerto Rico claimed success for a 24-hour general strike held to support students striking against a proposed $100 million budget cut, who have met police repression.
Running battles between police and gunmen of the Shower Posse gang turned part of Jamaica’s capital Kingston into a warzone, with reports of explosions and civilian casualties.
The UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti has launched an investigation into the shootings of dozens of prisoners in a jail riot in Les Cayes following the devastating January earthquake.
Several thousand people marched in Port-au-Prince in the latest and largest in a series of demonstrations against the government of Haitian President René Garcia Préval.
Haiti’s agriculture ministry accepted a “gift” of 523.6 tons of hybrid corn seeds and 2,067 kg of vegetable seeds from the Monsanto Company—despite activist fears that they are genetically modified.
Police took control of the entrances to the Río Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan in an effort to cut off student protesters on the campus from supporters outside.
The Vietnamese telecommunications company Viettel formally acquired 60% of the shares in Haiti’s state-owned phone company, Télécommunications d’Haiti (Haiti Téléco).
