Campesino leaders report army abuses against local indigenous peasants in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz since a “state of siege” was declared there.
The National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP) marched in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, in solidarity with the protest movement in Egypt, blocking traffic on a major thoroughfare.
Ngobe protesters streamed into Panama’s capital city and blocked the street in front of the Legislative Palace to protest their exclusion from an committee on the mineral code.
The North Cauca Association of Indigenous Councils in southeast Colombia’s Cauca department has implemented its own re-immersion program for demobilized guerillas.
Coca growers gathered in cities across Bolivia to hold peaceful demonstrations in support of their government’s proposed amendment to the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.
The Hunt Oil-led consortium that operates Peru’s massive Camisea gas field is deadlocked in royalty talks with the government—raising questions about plans for massive expansion.
A new study in the journal Science indicates the growing frequency of severe droughts in the Amazon could make the world’s biggest rainforest a net emitter of greenhouse gases.
Brazil’s National Indigenous Foundation (FUNAI) has released new photographs of an isolated tribe living in a remote rainforest region near the Peruvian border.
Brazil’s environmental agency IBAMA issued a construction permit for the Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River in the Amazon—in a move called illegal by the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Palestinians demonstrating in support of Egyptian anti-government protesters were forcibly disbanded when a few dozen men in plainclothes disrupted the rally in Ramallah.
Thousands took to the streets in Milan and Belgrade to demand their respective governments step down—although the Italian protests played to the left and the Serbian to the populist right.
At least two people were killed in the northern Tunisian city of El Kif when police opened fire on protesters who reportedly threw fire bombs and stones at a police station.
