Teachers in the southern mexican state of Oaxaca have vowed to block local elections next sunday. In Colombia, the trial against former chief of intelligence Miguel Maza has begun. Thousands of teachers took to the streets of Santiago, Chile, to express their rejection of an education bill currently being debated in congress. In China, over three thousand rescuers fought bad weather, as they searched for more than four hundred people missing after a ship capsized on the Yangtze river. Despite the expiration of three provisions in the US patriot act, the Obama administration has maintained that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden should still face prosecution.
