A 16-year-old Chilean youth was seriously wounded with metal pellets in the latest raid by the carabineros militarized police on an indigenous Mapuche village in the southern region of Araucanía.
The New York Times revealed that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. covered up a $24 million bribery scandal in 2005 in its Mexican branch, the largest private employer in the country.
After dodging prison terms for murdering campesinos and protecting drug lords, US-trained Gen. Acosta Chaparro is gunned down by an unknown assailant at a Mexico City auto shop.
Eight indigenous Purépecha were shot dead near the autonomous community of Cherán in Michoacán, the center of a year-long struggle to protect local forests from illegal loggers.
The Argentine government moves to take control of 51% of the shares in YPF SA, the country’s largest oil company—with the support of the politicians who privatized it 20 years ago.
More than 3,500 Honduran campesino families occupied land in estates in different parts of the country to demand implementation of an effective national agrarian reform policy.
Campesino groups around the world planned arches and land occupations to mark the International Day of Campesino Struggles, demanding agrarian reform and an end to land-grabbing by rich landowners.
The AFL-CIO has joined with two Honduran union federations to file a petition with the US Department of Labor asking the US to push the Honduran government to address labor violations.
After 15 days on hunger strike, Antonia López Cruz sewed her lips together and had herself tied to the fence outside the Mexican Senate building to demand the return of her six-year-old daughter.
As the Dominican election race heats up, the government charges that a retired general close to an opposition candidate is plotting to destabilize the government of Haitian president Michel Martelly.
Former Argentine dictator Gen. Jorge Videla has admitted that the military disappeared thousands of people after a coup whose goals included creating a market economy and “disciplining” unions.
Since NAFTA took effect in 1994, Mexico’s struggle with obesity and its related life-threatening problems—diabetes, stroke, heart disease—has become “Americanized,” a new study reports.
