Talks are underway in Lima between small-scale miners and Peru’s Ministry of Mines following deadly repression of a protest campaign by miners to demand land and prospecting rights.
A second rancher was sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, the US-born nun who was gunned down in retaliation for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest.
Spanish-Argentine oil giant Repsol-YPF has applied to Peru’s government to cut 454 kilometers of seismic lines and construct 152 heliports in its search for oil on uncontacted tribes’ land.
A group of indigenous Kichwa men from the community of Sarayaku in the Ecuadoran Amazon were attacked with dynamite and firearms by invaders illegally encroaching on indigenous lands.
Ecuadoran police fired tear gas at indigenous protesters gathered outside the National Assembly building in Quito to oppose a water resources bill that they say favors mining companies and agribusiness.
A Virginia military jury acquitted US Navy SEAL Matthew McCabe on charges of assaulting a high-profile Iraqi detainee, implicated in the killing of four US contractors in Fallujah.
Members of the Mauritanian diaspora are holding a protest at the country’s Washington embassy against Prime Minster Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf’s move to ban African languages.
The Greek Parliament passed the austerity package, with protesters gathering outside the Parliament’s doors. The deaths of three bank workers in a fire set by protesters has polarized Greece.
Western Sahara’s Polisario Front condemned a Security Council resolution extending the UN mission mandate for the Morocco-occupied territory, but imposing no mechanism to monitor rights.
Spain has extradited pilot Julio Alberto Poch, veteran of the notorious Naval Mechanics School, to Argentina to face trial for his alleged role in the nation’s 1976-83 “Dirty War.”
US immigration agents arrested a South Florida man accused of involvement in Guatemala’s December 1982 massacre at Dos Erres village that left more than 250 dead.
Paris-based Reporters Without Borders, in a survey of global press-freedom “Predators,” ranks Eritrea’s President Issaias Afeworki as the world’s worst abuser of media freedom.
