Gen. Douglas Frazier, head of the Pentagon’s Southern Command, indicated that refugees from the devastating Haiti earthquake may be temporarily housed at Guantánamo Bay naval base.
Bassin Zim Education & Development Fund, a non-profit that provides aid to disaster victims and supports agricultural projects in Haiti, has launched a special earthquake relief drive.
David L. Wilson of Weekly News Update on the Americas reports from stricken Port-au-Prince in the wake of the devastating earthquake.
Two weeks after thousands marched in San Juan to protest official indifference in a gruesome anti-gay slaying, another gay man was found stabbed 20 times and partly decapitated.
Amsterdam summoned the Venezuelan ambassador to explain accusations by Hugo Chávez that the Netherlands are colluding with the US by allowing military access to the Dutch Antilles.
The US has charged two former Haitian officials and three Florida telecom executives with foreign bribery, wire fraud and money laundering related to corruption at Haiti Téléco.
Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council rejected 16 of the 69 parties that submitted candidates for upcoming legislative elections—including the Lavalas Family of ex-president Jean Bertrand Aristide.
Chilean troops from the Brazilian-led United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) wounded one local man when they opened fire on a crowd in Grand-Goâve.
One was killed and one wounded in protests over power outages in the northern Dominican province of Santiago last week. At least two others have died in protests over blackouts this year.
The Security Council approved a one-year extension of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), as President Obama certified Haiti as having fulfilled workers’ rights criteria.
Santiago Alvarez, underwriter of accused right-wing Cuban terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and himself convicted in weapons stockpiling, was released from US immigration custody.
A one-day general strike protesting plans to lay off 16,970 of Puerto Rico’s 180,000 public employees in November shut down all state-owned enterprises on the island Oct. 15.
