In a victory for local environmentalists, Minera Argenta suspended its Navidad silver mine in Chubut–but the national oil company has signed a fracking deal with Chevron.
Mexico City released 14 people held for almost four weeks on charges of “attacks on the public peace” during protests against the inauguration of President Enrique Peña Nieto.
The government of Puerto Rico has responded to a scathing report from the US Justice Department by agreeing to reform the island’s police department.
A court sentenced 16 former officials to life in prison for crimes against humanity in the cases of 280 people detained during the “dirty war” against suspected leftists.
Argentina’s first wave of store lootings since 2001 started with people with covered faces breaking into six supermarkets in San Carlos de Bariloche, an Andean ski resort town.
Following up on an exposé last April of bribery by Wal-Mart de México, NY Times reporters have identified 19 Wal-Mart stores whose construction was aided by corruption.
“It is shocking how the debate over gun control in the wake of the Newtown massacre has avoided mentioning gun violence south of the border”: UNAM professor John M. Ackerman.
A new luxury hotel is launched with the help of $2 million from the Clinton Bush Fund, while tens of thousands of earthquake survivors continue to live under tents.
Two men on a motorcycle gunned down a labor leader as tensions grew in a dispute between petroleum workers and their employer—as police try to implicate the union.
An Argentine judge has opened an investigation into possible involvement of the Ford Motor Co. in the kidnapping and torture of autoworkers during the 1976-1983 “dirty war.”
HSBC, Europe’s largest bank, will pay the US government $1.92 billion in fines for its failure to prevent the laundering of drug money—but no one will face criminal charges.
A panel of the Mexican Supreme Court decided unanimously to uphold a challenge that three same-sex couples brought against the marriage law in the southern state of Oaxaca.
