Guaraní leaders at Itika Guasu say Bolivia's government has used rivalries over oil revenues to instrument a split and impose a new "parallel" leadership over the community.
The Mexican government says it has identified a second set of remains from the 43 missing students, but an Argentine forensic team working on the case questions the claim.
Clergy and rights advocates in Mindanao see army-supported paramilitary groups behind a wave of killings of indigenous leaders opposed to gold-mining operations on traditional lands.
Mexico's interior ministry is accused by a senate committee of covering up evidence pointing to official complicity in the escape of drug kingpin "El Chapo" Guzmán.
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.
Mapuche indigenous leaders in Chile are expressing outrage over the violent eviction of protesters who were occupying a government office in the southern region of Araucania.
At least four are dead following clashes between police and residents in Peru's Apurímac region, amid protests over the Chinese-owned Las Bambas copper mine project.
Ecuador's government dropped moves to shut the country's press watchdog after revelations that public funds were used to purge the Internet of critical material.
Campesinos on a cross-country march to demand a clean-up of Peru's massively polluted Oroya metal-smelting complex were attacked by the National Police.
An Ansar Dine militant was turned over to the International Criminal Court, accused of destruction of religious monuments and other war crimes committed in Timbuktu.
Burkina Faso's interim President Michel Kafando was formally reinstated after coup leaders capitulated in the face of popular pressure and mediation by regional leaders.
Colombia is suffering the worst drought and forest fires in its history, partially due to weather phenomenon El Niño, with water rationing instated across the country.
