Montreal-based Osisko Mining Corporation announced that it would suspend exploration for a proposed gold mine at the Nevados de Famatina mountain after weeks of protests blocking access to the site.
Protesters blocked highways in the latest round between Panama’s largest indigenous group and rightwing president Ricardo Martinelli over environmental protections in indigenous territories.
Two men on a motorcycle gunned down Honduran campesino activist MatĂas Valle Cárdenas as he was leaving his home in the Lower Aguán Valley, the site of often violent land disputes.
A Guatemalan judge ruled that there was sufficient evidence to try former military dictator Gen. EfraĂn RĂos Montt for genocide, but the current president denies there was genocide.
An opponent of a Canadian-owned silver mine in Oaxaca was killed when supporters of a pro-mining mayor reportedly fired on a demonstration about a local water pipelin.
Chile and Mexico are leaders among the 34 “developed” countries in the OECD group–leaders in income inequality, along with Israel, Turkey and the US.
The Cuban government says Wilmar Villar Mendoza wasn’t a political prisoner and hadn’t been on a hunger strike before his death; the US calls him a “courageous defender of human rights.”
After years of impunity, former Guatemalan military dictator Gen. EfraĂn RĂos Montt (1982-83) is to appear before a judge this month in what could become a trial for genocide.
Three unidentified men gunned down attorney JosĂ© Ricardo Rosales in the coastal city of Tela just four days after a newspaper reported on Rosales’ claim that local police agents had abused detainees.
Distrust continues between popular Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa and many of the grassroots and leftist organizations that helped bring him to office five years.
Buenos Aires subway workers protested a 127% increase in the fare by opening the turnstiles during rush hours for about a week and letting passengers ride for free.
Investigators from Mexico’s governmental human rights commission found evidence that Guerrero state police fired the shots that killed two students during a protest last month.
