With action blocked by Russia's veto in the Security Council, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution establishing an independent investigation into war crimes in Syria.
With action in the Security Council blocked by Russia and China, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution demanding an immediate end to all attacks on civilians in Syria.
Followers of the indigenous party Yatama clashed with police and supporters of the ruling FSLN on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast in the aftermath of contested national elections.
Francisca Ramírez Torres, leader of the movement against the planned Nicaraguan canal, was arrested without charge by National Police agents in a raid on her village.
In a hotly contested incident, Nicaraguan army troops killed "Comandante Invisible," a campesino leader who had just announced he was taking up arms against the government.
Financial woes for the Hong Kong-based developer and an unfavorable World Court ruling in a border dispute with Costa Rica have slowed Nicaragua's inter-oceanic canal project.
Nicaragua's government approved environmental impact statements for the new inter-oceanic canal—and effectively shut down a planned national march to oppose the mega-project.
At least nine have been killed and 20 more wounded in an escalating land conflict on Nicaragua's Miskito Coast over the past month, with hundreds displaced.
Official ceremonies marked ground-breaking on Nicaragua's inter-oceanic canal project—marred by angry campesino protests, with scores detained and injured.
While many in the US seemed shocked by the Senate's torture report, some US media wrote honestly about the "direct line" from torture in Latin America to the post-9-11 version.
With work about to begin on an inter-oceanic canal through Nicaragua, campesinos who stand to be evicted for the mega-scheme pledge resistance and warn of a "massacre."
Gary Webb's 1996 newspaper series on narco-trafficking by US-backed Nicaraguan "resistance" fighters in the 1980s keeps getting buried—and keeps coming back to life.
