Barrick Gold is ordered to suspend work on its massive Pascua Lama mine high in the Andes; the company also gets a fine that Greenpeace dismisses as “laughable.”
In Argentina residents protest Monsanto's plan for a giant facility in their town; Mexican campesinos worry about contaminated corn; Puerto Ricans want labels on GM food.
Barrick Gold’s Latin American mining expansion faces new obstacles in Chile, continuing opposition in Argentina and the Dominican Republic, and a big drop in the price of gold.
With a giant march for free higher education, the student protest movement is getting back much of the drive it had two years ago—and the politicians are paying attention.
With problems—and fines—accumulating at the mammoth Pacua Lama mine site high in the Andes, environmentalists are asking if it isn’t time to call the whole thing off.
Sixty people were arrested as Chilean students marked the beginning of the school year with a new march against the privatized system left by Gen. Pinochet.
President Sebastián Piñera offered to have “consultations” with the Mapuche. Indigenous leaders responded by calling for self-government.
A federal magistrate judge in Columbus, Georgia, sentenced "Nashua" Chantal to the maximum for trespassing at the US Army's Fort Benning base to protest the notorious SOA.
A court in Argentina sentenced the country’s last military dictator Reynaldo Bignone to life in prison for crimes against humanity committed during his rule in 1982 and ’83.
Plans for a major hydroelectric plant in southern Chile have been stalled by environmental concerns and oppostion from Mapuche communities fearing the loss of sacred sites.
Declassified US documents show that Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was planning to carry out another coup if he lost a 1988 plebiscite on his military regime.
Some 2,000 Bolivians marched on the Chilean consulate to demand the liberation of three Bolivian soliders detained after crossing the border into the neighboring country.
