"There won't be a Cup; there'll be a strike," school teachers said in Rio, joining tens of thousands protesting government policies as the soccer championship opens.
The US is threatening to cut aid if the Salvadoran government insists on buying seeds from small producers instead of big companies linked to US agribusiness.
After defeating government "development" plans and repression a decade ago, militant campesinos are again confronting a program that would urbanize their farmlands.
Haitian and Latin American organizations are pushing for an end to the UN's military and police "stabilization" mission—after 10 years of corruption, violence and disease.
Activists across Latin America participated in international protests against Monsanto and Chevron—but some "pink tide" governments continue to cozy up to Chevron.
The Honduran government faces criticism from the OAS human rights agency for its failure to protect campesino activists and LGBT people.
Mexico City officials say a village's spring will be tapped to supply water to neighboring areas, but residents suspect their drinking water will be diverted to a shopping mall.
President Medina finally unveiled his law to "naturalize" Dominicans deprived of their citizenship last fall, but activists question the measure's effectiveness.
Buenos Aires residents go on fighting the "tale of two cities" policies of Mayor Macri, while in Santiago del Estero an editor is charged with "terrorism."
Zapatista supporters around the world are holding demonstrations to protest an attack on a rebel community in Chiapas, as state police make arrests in the case.
Inspired in part by immigrant activists in the US, Central American migrants are increasingly traveling openly through Mexico in large groups.
Supporters of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in Mexico's Chiapas state charge that a rival group is responsible for violence in which a Zapatista follower was killed.
