Mexico
Mexico: judge suspends GM corn planting
As activists prepared for an international day of action against Monsanto, a Mexican judge issued an injunction suspending the planting of GM corn in Mexico.
Tag: Brazil
The Amazon
Brazil: teachers, indigenous hold mass protests
June's mass protests have ended, but Brazilians continue to demonstrate for education, decent pay, indigenous rights and an end to police repression.
The Amazon
Brazil: documents expose US industrial espionage
Brazil's president calls off a visit to DC as the US is left trying to explain how spying on Brazil's oil company could be necessary for the war on terrorism.
Mexico
US spied on Brazilian and Mexican leaders
In the latest US intelligence scandal, the NSA is caught bragging about its ability to intercept messages to and from the presidents of Latin America’s two largest countries.
Southern Cone
Brazil: 300 arrested in new round of protests
Thousands of Brazilians took to the street again to demand better schools, hospitals and social services, and to protest the vast sums expended on new sports stadiums.
The Amazon
Brazil: farmers block Belo Monte to demand power
Local farmers demanding electricity and a bridge are the latest group to protest at the massive Belo Monte dam project in the Brazilian Amazon.
Southern Cone
Brazil: police actions protested during pope’s visit
The center of attention in Brazil was supposed to be the pope’s visit, but for many people it was actions by the militarized police, such as the disappearance of a Rio construction worker.
The Amazon
Brazil sends tanks to protect threatened tribe
Brazil’s military has launched a major ground operation against illegal logging around the remote Amazon lands of the Awá, said the be the “Earth’s most threatened tribe.”
The Andes
Leaks show massive US spying throughout Americas
The US has been spying on telecommunications in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and 11 other Latin American countries—with a focus on oil and other economic issues.
Southern Cone
Brazil: unions respond to protests with general strike
The union movement held its first big general strike in three decades in a bid to bring labor demands to the spontaneous protest movement that swept Brazil in June.
Southern Cone
Brazil: Rousseff offers protesters a plebiscite
The governing center-left Workers Party is pushing for major political reform in response to the June protests, but would that be enough to satisfy the protesters?
Southern Cone
Brazil: 10 dead as police raid favela
At least 10 people were killed when elite troops from the Special Operations Battalion (BOPE) of Brazil’s Military Police raided Nova Holanda favela in Rio de Janeiro.