Radio Espinar, the local transmitter in Espinar province of Peru’s Cuzco region, charges that its license was revoked as retaliation for its coverage of anti-mining protests.
National Police troops attacked hundreds of campesinos in Peru’s northern Cajamarca region in a protest against the mineral operations of Canadian-owned Sulliden Gold Corporation.
World Water Day marches in Ecuador ironically coincided with the start of a brief jail sentence for three campesino leaders in Cuenca, convicted in a protest over water rights.
The National Indigenous Organization of Colombia warned the Inter-American Human Rights Commission that 65 the country's indigenous groups risk cultural or physical "extinction."
A clash broke out as riot troops from Peru's National Police force evicted a group of informal miners from their encampment in northern La Libertad region, leaving two miners dead.
Peru’s Yanacocha mining company, facing an ultimatum from protesters to leave the contested Conga site, denied press reports that it plans to quit gold-rich Cajamarca region.
Seven social leaders in Bolivia’s aliplano city of Oruro have been on a hunger strike for 10 days to protest the decision to change the name of the local airport to Evo Morales.
Colombia’s high court found former Liberal Party regional boss César Pérez García guilty of having ordered the massacre of a village after it voted in the left-wing Unión Patriótica.
Whether the gains of Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution will survive his passing depends on how genuinely it is based on popular power, not just that of a charismatic leader.
Sabino Romero, cacique (traditional chief) of the Yukpa indigenous people, who opposed extractive industries in Venezuela’s Sierra de Perijá, was assassinated in a road ambush.
Hundreds of National Police troops have surrounded a protest encampment estabished by campesinos at the site of the Conga mining project in northern Peru.
FARC commander Rodrigo Granda, speaking to reporters in Havana where the peace talks are underway, denied that the guerilla army is a drug-trafficking organization.
