Representatives of the Aymara protest movement in southern Peru’s Puno region met with leaders of the mining ministry in Lima, who agreed in principle to put a halt to the operation that sparked the protests.
Aerial photos released by Brazil’s indigenous affairs agency reveal evidence of one of the world’s last “uncontacted” tribes, in the Vale do Javari region of the Amazon. FUNAI warns that illegal timber operations threaten the tribe’s survival.
An appeals court in New York allowed a Con Edison suit against the Port Authority to proceed. The case concerns the destruction of an electrical substation at 7 WTC, and could help clear the air on the building’s controversial collapse.
A group of Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and the United States have written an open letter to Cynthia McKinney expressing their “severe disappointment” at her support for Moammar Qaddafi.
Obama and congressional leaders “are within striking distance of a deal” to ratify free trade accords with Colombia, Panama and South Korea, says Chamber of Commerce president Thomas Donohue.
More than 65 women have been murdered so far this year in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León. The victims included pregnant women and nine underage girls; the majority were sexually abused.
Tens of thousands of students, teachers and supporters protested Chile’s education policies with a huge demonstration in Santiago that the press called “the most massive march since the return of democracy” in 1990.
More than 5,000 agricultural workers blocked the Trans-Amazonian highway in the northern Brazilian state of Pará to push demands for land, government aid and an end to violence against activists.
Paramilitaries linked to organized crime have used death threats and violence to cause a general exodus of several campesino communities in the Sierra del Sur of southern Mexico’s Guerrero state.
Prominent Mexican journalist and commentator Miguel Angel López Velasco, who covered narco trafficking for the Veracruz daily Notiver, was shot dead along with his wife and son by gunmen who broke into the family’s home.
Juan Francisco Durán Ayala, a young opponent of the local Pacific Rim gold mine in El Salvador’s Cabañas department, was found dead days after his disappearance last week—and quickly buried by authorities in a mass grave.
As the new UN climate summit opens in Bonn, advocates of the hubristic “geo-engineering” agenda appear to have won the ear of some on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
