Palestine
Settlers attack olive harvest amid Jerusalem unrest
Israeli settlers torched some 100 olive trees owned by Palestinian farmers near Nablus as the year's harvest began—the latest in a pattern of such attacks.
Tag: land
Mexico
Mexico: dam opponent slain during radio broadcast
Activist Atilano Román Tirado, an opponent of the Picachos dam in Mexico's Sinaloa state, was slain by hitmen in the middle of a radio broadcast in Mazatlán.
The Andes
Colombia: dialogue table for peasants, minorities
Colombia's government, campesinos, indigenous groups and Afro-Colombians launched a dialogue table to improve conditions for rural and minority communities.
Mexico
Guanajuato: campesino protesters occupy city
Some 2,000 campesinos blocked streets in Celaya, Guanajuato, demanding that authorities take measures in response to the plunging price of maiz and sorghum.
Afghanistan
Warlords cut deal on Afghan electoral dispute
The deal that ended Afghanistan's electoral deadlock was brokered by the country's leading war criminals—and the US hopes to follow up with a "status of forces" agreement.
Central America
Honduras: longtime campesina leader murdered
Some 200 campesinos have been murdered in ongoing land disputes in Honduras over the past years; a veteran leader of campesinos appears to be the latest victim.
The Amazon
Brazil cracks down on Amazon ‘land traffickers’
Authorities in Brazil arrested several members of a criminal "land trafficking" gang described as "the greatest destroyers" of the Amazon rainforest.
Palestine
Israel confiscates 1,000 acres of Palestinian land
Israeli authorities announced the confiscation of an unprecedented 4,000 dunums (1,000 acres) of private Palestinian land south of Bethlehem under an 1858 Ottoman ordinance.
The Andes
Cajamarca: campesino family convicted in retrial
A court in Peru's Cajamarca region sentenced three members of a campesino family to more than two years for "land usurpation" against the Yanacocha mineral company.
Southern Cone
Brazil: indigenous lives not worth a traffic sign
Prosecutors in Brazil called for compensation to a Guarani indigenous community forced by land usurpation into a roadside camp where eight have been killed by motorists.
Central America
Honduras: new death reported in land struggle
As the death count nears 150, the campesino struggle for land in the Lower Aguán Valley of Honduras continues—with the military and the police taking the landowners' side.
The Andes
Shining Path leaders indicted in US court
Three leaders of Peru's Shining Path guerrilla movement, two still at large, were indicted in a US district court in New York on charges of "narco-terrorism conspiracy."