Southern Cone

Argentina: anti-Monsanto protesters attacked

Using rocks and clubs, a group of supposed workers assaulted activists and local residents protesting plans to build a massive Monsanto facility in Córdoba, Argentina.

Southern Cone

Argentina: residents block Monsanto plant

As concern grows about the safety of its pesticides, Monsanto faces a militant small city that refuses to let the company build a massive facility there.

The Andes

Bolivia ready for nuclear power: Evo Morales

At a “Hydrocarbon Sovereignty” conference in Tarija, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales said his country has achieved the conditions to obtain nuclear power for “pacific ends.”