A federal judge has ordered ex-president Carlos Saúl Menem to stand trial on charges that he impeded the first probe into a July 1994 bombing of the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA) building.
A sergeant in Chile’s notorious carabineros militarized police force was shot and killed in an ambush after a raid on an indigenous Mapuche village the southern region of Araucanía.
Construction companies controlled by an influential Dominican politician have paid more than $2.5 million to Haitian president Michel Martelly since 2010, according to a Dominican television report.
Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission strongly condemned state and federal officials and police agents for their actions in an incident in the state of Guerrero that left three people dead.
Four Honduran campesinos were killed and 11 were wounded in an ambush in the northern department of Colón just three days after a similar attack in the same area left five soldiers wounded.
Some 1,500 indigenous campesinos arrived in Guatemala City after an eight-day, 214-km walk from Cobán to promote their demands for land, debt cancellation and a halt to mining operations.
Thousands of Chileans turned out in Santiago for the funeral of Daniel Zamudio, a young gay man killed by a group of neo-Nazis. Even the conservative Catholic bishops finally denounced the crime.
The Bolivian government declared three days of mourning for union and leftist leader Domitila Barrios de Chungara, who led the mass hunger strike that brought down dictator Hugo Banzer Suárez.
Former general Pedro Pimentel has been sentenced to 6,030 years in prison for his participation in a 1982 massacre of 201 civilians–most of them women and children–in the village of Dos Erres.
Transgender activist Agnes Torres Sulca and anti-mining activist Bernardo Vásquez Sánchez are the latest victims of a wave of violence that seems to target grassroots political organizers.
Tens of thousands of Mexican teachers in several states went on strike or took to the streets March 14-16 in three days of “Action in Defense of Education.”
While 2011 was dominated by massive student protests in Chile, some local media have suggested that 2012 is starting to look like the real “year of the protest.”
