Mexico
Mexico: delays in Shabazz murder inquiry protested
Afro-Mexican activists say the authorities are failing to investigate Malcolm Shabazz’s murder properly, just as happened with a Nigerian immigrant’s death in 2011.
Tag: police state
Central America
Honduras: Congress resurrects military police force
The Honduran government is planning to form a military police unit, despite the rights abuses that led to the abolition of the military police 1997. The US reportedly likes the idea.
The Andes
Peru: police ‘death squad’ leader absolved
A court in Trujillo, Peru, issued a ruling absolving former National Police colonel Elidio Espinoza, who was charged with running a secret "death squad" within the force.
Southern Cone
Brazil: police actions protested during pope’s visit
The center of attention in Brazil was supposed to be the pope’s visit, but for many people it was actions by the militarized police, such as the disappearance of a Rio construction worker.
North America
California threatens prisoners over hunger strike
California authorities are threatening disciplinary measures as more than 30,000 inmates in the state's prisons have joined a hunger strike against solitary confinement.
Watching the Shadows
Obama preparing martial law?
Changes to a regulation in the US Code titled “Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement” allow military commanders to “quell large-scale, unexpected civil disturbances.”
North America
Assata Shakur: don’t believe the ‘terrorist’ hype
Veteran Black Panther Assata Shakur's addition to the FBI's "Most Wanted Terrorists" list is a propagandistic abuse of the English language in the service of historical revisionism.
Southern Cone
Argentina: 50 injured as police attack hospital
The Buenos Aires police use rubber bullets against nurses and mental patients, the latest episode in the city government’s campaign against public property.
North America
Chechen rebels see anomalies in Boston attack
The Kavkaz Center, voice of the Chechen mujahedeen, issued a statement suggesting that the suspects in the Boston attacks were framed in a plot to discredit their struggle.
North America
Somali men in new ‘terrorism’ cases
A Somali-American accused of planning a Christmas bomb attack in Oregon appears to be the latest victim of an FBI-generated bogus "terrorism" plot.
Southern Cone
Argentina: ex-prez gets off for 2001 repression
The courts let a former president off for police killings in his administration 11 years ago, but sentenced a left-leaning former economy minister with suspicious cash in her office.
Mexico
Mexico: remaining Dec. 1 detainees freed
Mexico City released 14 people held for almost four weeks on charges of “attacks on the public peace” during protests against the inauguration of President Enrique Peña Nieto.