Greenpeace charges that operations by the Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corporation in the Argentine Andes at the border with Chile have already significantly damaged three small glaciers.
The average income of Mexican households fell by 12.3% between 2008 and 2010, a new report finds, with the main source of new job growth identified as the illegal narcotrafficking sector.
Port-au-Prince authorities are evicting 400-450 families from the parking lot of the Sylvio Cator soccer stadium, where they have been living after being displaced by a January 2010 earthquake.
A 24-hour national general strike against the economic policies of Dominican president Leonel FernĆ”ndez was “95 to 100%” effective, according to the organizers. But there was significant violence, with at least three people reported killed.
Tens of thousands of Chilean students and supporters held their fourth massive demonstration demanding a reversal of the system of privatized education instituted under Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
Some “gun trafficking ‘higher-ups'” who supply weapons to Mexican drug cartels may have been “paid as informants” by US government agencies, according to two ranking US Congress members.
Two armed men gunned down Mexican activists Isabel Ayala Nava and her sister, Reyna Ayala Nava, as they were leaving a church in Xaltianguis, near Acapulco. Ayala was the widow of famed guerilla leader Lucio CabaƱas Barrientos.
Eight campesinos were killed when a group of 10 to 12 heavily armed men fired their weapons indiscriminately at the “Discovery Villanueva” disco and pool hall in Villanueva, NariƱo department.
The Guatemalan government failed to comply with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights’ order to help more than 600 campesino families that had been evicted from land they were farming.
Villagers in northeastern Haiti say they were never consulted or even warned about plans to build a huge new industrial park on land where many of them have been farming for some 20 years.
Several Haitian social organizations called on the UN “peacekeeprs” to pay reparations to the victims of a cholera epidemic that appeared to originate at a UN base last October.
Chilean president SebastiĆ”n PiƱera is backing a bill that would legalize civil unions for the country’s same-sex couples, but LGBT activists are pushing for full marriage equality. Cuba meanwhile held its first-ever Pride march.
