For the first time in 15 years, screenwriters in Hollywood are going on strike. In Venezuela, health, education and pensioners sectors have taken to the streets en masse to demand, once again, that the minimum wage depend on the basic basket.

In Guatemala, the trial of journalist José Ruben Zamora begins on Tuesday. In Haiti, "new territories conquered by gangs in Port-au-Prince," writes AlterPresse: "gangs continue their inexorable advance in areas such as Fort-Jacques"