What appeared to be a clumsy effort to catch US secret leaker Edward Snowden seems to have backfired: three Latin American countries have now offered Snowden asylum.
Local residents in Sacatepéquez continue their six-year campaign against a cement processing plant, despite management’s effort to appease them with a Mayan ceremony.
Pro-Zapatista indigenous prisoners are gradually being released in Mexico, after years of struggle, but the schoolteacher Alberto Patishtán remains imprisoned.
Declassifiied documents reveal the UK and the US opposed Israel's secret atom bomb program in 1964–but helped keep it secret after Israel bought Argentine uranium.
Port workers and copper miners joined students in the latest marches for free education, while the media and government focused on violence by a few of the marchers.
The governing center-left Workers Party is pushing for major political reform in response to the June protests, but would that be enough to satisfy the protesters?
Violence continues in northern Honduras, with death threats against opponents of open-pit mining and the murder of a longtime campesino leader and his son.
State University of Haiti administrators backed off an effort to triple registration fees after students protested with a militant demonstration in downtown Port-au-Prince.
Small protests over a fare increase turned overnight into Brazil’s largest demonstrations since 1984, with three out of four Brazilians backing the actions
Well before the massive protests, many Brazilians were organizing against homophobia, the expropriation of indigenous lands, and the diversion of funds to sports events.
The Brazilian protest movement echoes many other spontaneous mass movements around the world, and like them it has a number of ambiguities.
Representatives from 40 organizations were present when a court decided—at least for now–not to pursue a dubious weapons possession charge against Berta Cáceres.
