Mexico
Mexico: campesinos block Tabasco oil wells
Local campesinos are blockading hundreds of oil and gas wells in Mexico's Tabasco state to demand indemnification for lands impacted by a massive spill and explosion.
Author: CounterVortex
The Andes
Cajamarca: police attack campesino community
National Police troops attacked local residents of El Lirio village in Peru's Cajamarca region after they blocked mining company vehicles that attempted to enter their lands.
Iraq
ISIS seize nuclear, chemical materials: reports
Iraq's government warned the UN that ISIS militants have seized nuclear materials from a Mosul research facility and chemical agents from a stockpile outside Baghdad.
The Andes
Venezuela: new attack on indigenous leader
In the latest violent incident related to land disputes in Venezuela's western Sierra de Perijá, Yukpa indigenous leader Anita Fernández was wounded in an attack by armed men.
The Andes
Peru: protest new legal assault on environment
Indigenous organizations in Peru are calling on President Ollanta Humala not to enact a new bill that would limit public review of environmental inpact studies.
The Andes
Peru: interior minister linked to journalist’s murder
Judicial authorities in Peru have opened an investigation into Interior Minister Daniel Urresti in connection with the murder of a journalist, sparking calls for his resignation.
The Amazon
Brazil: ‘imminent’ threat to isolated peoples
Officials in Brazil warn that isolated indigenous groups in the Amazon face imminent "tragedy" and "death" following a rash of sightings in the remote area near the border with Peru.
The Andes
Shining Path leaders indicted in US court
Three leaders of Peru's Shining Path guerrilla movement, two still at large, were indicted in a US district court in New York on charges of "narco-terrorism conspiracy."
Mexico
US Border Patrol smuggled arms for Sinaloa Cartel?
A protected witness testified to Mexican prosecutors that members of the US Border Patrol collaborated with the Sinaloa Cartel in arms trafficking to the criminal network.
East Asia
Tokyo: thousands protest re-militarization
Some 40,000 protested at the Japanese prime minister's office to oppose the government's reinterpretation of the constitution to allow the military a larger international role.
Southeast Asia
Mindanao: tribes want autonomy from Moro zone
Indigenous tribes within the proposed Bangsamoro territory in Mindanao, created under a peace deal with Moro rebels, are demanding that their ancestral lands be excluded.
Southeast Asia
Burma: anti-Muslim pogrom in Mandalay
A Buddhist mob attacked Muslims in Burma's second city of Mandalay, damaging a mosque and Muslim-owned shops and leaving at least five injured.