Colombia’s largest coal miner, Cerrejon, under force majeure due to a work stoppage, was targted in a guerilla attack that left four of the company’s trucks destroyed by fire.
Declassified US documents show that Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was planning to carry out another coup if he lost a 1988 plebiscite on his military regime.
A new report finds that soldiers from Honduras' US-trained 15th Battalion are directly implicated in "kidnappings, killings, threats, torture and abuse of authority."
An activist whose teenaged daughter disappeared in 2008 has applied for political asylum in the US after being harassed by the authorities in Ciudad Juárez.
Protesters demonstrated against the Dominican government’s deals with a Canadian mining multinational, and with developers claiming titles to properties in an ecological reserve.
In just one day Jean-Claude Duvalier defied an order to appear in court for human rights abuses and the UN refused to accept responsibility for the cholera epidemic it started.
Hamid Karzai barred US Special Forces from two strategic provinces following reports of atrocities, as US Marines level similar charges against Afghan police they are training.
Hundreds took to the streets in the West Bank and Gaza in a second day of protests following the death of a Palestinian prisoner who PA officials say died as a result of torture.
Trial began in US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana between individuals affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and British Petroleum.
The feared riot squad of the Colombian National Police has been mobilized to Arauca to break up peasant blockades of roads leading to Occidental Petroleum’s oilfields.
With law and order stretched thin in Mexico, citizen posses have stepped up, rounding up accused drug dealers and other criminals. Frequently armed with household rifles and shotguns, the civilian police militia of Ayutla, Guerrero, is trying to maintain the peace… Read moreVigilante justice in Mexico
Details are revealed of an anthropologist’s overflight that confirmed the existence of “uncontaced” indigenous groups in a remote area of Colombia’s Amazon basin.
