The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has withdrawn a 2010 order for the Guatemalan government to suspend operations at Goldcorp Inc.’s controversial Marlin gold mine.
Mexican environmental activists Eva AlarcĂłn and Marcial Bautista were reportedly still alive two weeks after their Dec. 7 kidnapping from a bus in the southwestern state of Guerrero.
After eight months of mobilizations, strikes and campus occupations, Chilean university and secondary students held their last protest of the 2011 school year.
Peruvian authorities finally allowed paroled US citizen Lori Berenson to leave for a brief visit to her family in New York; meanwhile, ex-president Alberto Fujimori is hoping to get a pardon.
Hundreds of Dominicans of Haitian origin demonstrated in Santo Domingo to protest a court ruling that they say lets the election board invalidate the citizenship of some 4,000 people.
Brazilian soldiers, “peacekeepers” with a United Nations force Haiti, detained two water delivery workers and a friend without cause, robbing them and beating them repeatedly.
Mexican ex-officials work as informants for the US DEA, which turns out to be laundering money for the cartels as part of the “war on drugs”; meanwhile, the murders of peace activists continue.
Two Mexican students were killed by police gunfire around as police agents and soldiers attempted to disperse protesters blocking the Mexico City-Acapulco highway near the capital of Guerrero.
Poverty decreased in most of Latin America—only Honduras and Mexico showed an increase in poverty rates, 1.7% for Honduras and 1.5% for Mexico.
Unknown assailants gunned down Mexican activist Nepomuceno Moreno in Hermosillo, Sonora. Moreno had opposed the government’s “war on drugs”; local officials suggested he was a criminal himself.
A Chilean judge charged former U.S. Navy Capt. Ray E. Davis with involvement in the murders of two US citizens in the days after the 1973 military coup that overthrew President Salvador Allende.
Two North American apparel companies are telling their Haiti subcontractors to reinstate recently fired union officers as the Haitian assembly industry faces mounting criticism.
