Mauritanian refugees wait in Senegal

Narco-killing spree in Tijuana, Culiacán
Police discovered the tortured bodies of six men in an empty lot in Tijuana, bringing the total found over the weekend to 11—including the corpse of a woman found in a barrel. In Culiacán, gunmen assassinated a Sinaloa state police commander and five others. Two were decapitated, and two found with a "narco-message" from Manuel Torres Félix AKA "El Ondeado."[more]

Mexican cops tape torture training
El Heraldo de León, a newspaper in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, released two graphic videotapes showing police agents from León's Special Tactical Group (GET) torturing other agents during training sessions. [more]

Tuaregs flee Mali

Survivors demand justice after Matamoros girls drown in Rio Grande
The families of three girls from Matamoros who drowned in the Rio Grande held a protest in the Mexican border city after authorities across the river in Brownsville, TX, ruled the death of Yadira Jazmine Hernández, 13, an accident. An initial autopsy report had indicated homicide. [more]

Mexico City market union wins
Mexico's independent Authentic Labor Front (FAT) reports one of its affiliates has won a settlement in a two-month struggle with the Central de Abasto, Mexico City's huge wholesale food market. [more]

Colombia: indigenous protesters attackedLatin American left reacts to release of FARC captives
US indicts Palestinian detainee Al-Arian
Nearly 500 arrested in ICE anti-gang raids
ICE arrests supervisors at Iowa meat plant
Protests and repression in Japan as G8 summit opens
Did McCain slug Sandinista?
Panama expunges Posada pardon
Evo charges: US plans bases in Peru
Venezuela: bishops bash Bolivarian Catholics

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