As the death count nears 150, the campesino struggle for land in the Lower Aguán Valley of Honduras continues—with the military and the police taking the landowners' side.
Three leaders of Peru's Shining Path guerrilla movement, two still at large, were indicted in a US district court in New York on charges of "narco-terrorism conspiracy."
The Honduran government faces criticism from the OAS human rights agency for its failure to protect campesino activists and LGBT people.
Datu Guibang Apoga, fugitive leader of the Manobo indigenous people of Mindanao, held a jungle press conference to pledge renewed resistance to militarization of tribal lands.
Several have been killed in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, in protests over plans to expand the city's borders to incorporate outlying Oromo-dominated municipalities.
Colombian campesinos launched a new national strike, blocking key roads across several regions of the country to press demands including debt relief.
Emilio Marichi Huansi, a traditional chief of Peru's Shawi people, was assassinated days before a community meeting he had called to discuss titling the group's ancestral lands.
A Colombian activist for restitution of usurped lands in the conflicted Urabá region was killed by presumed hired assassins—despite being under special government "protection."
Five Paraguayan campesinos arrested during a violent squatter eviction in 2012 and held since then without trial are six weeks into a hunger strike.
Twenty years after the uprising by the indigenous Zapatistas, land issues continue to produce violence in the Chiapas highlands–sometimes with outside encouragement.
Paraguayans used their first general strike in two decades to protest everything from low wages to the lack of an agrarian reform policy.
After more than a decade of a center-left government, Brazil's landless campesinos say their demands for agrarian reform are still not being met.
