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Chile: wildcat strike paralyzes ports
A wildcat strike has shut down several Chilean ports for the past three weeks, with the fruit and mineral industries claiming $100 million in losses.
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Brazil: prison violence spills into streets —again
The prison crisis in Brazil made brief headlines after newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo released a gruesome video of gang warfare victims at the violence-plagued Pedrinhas facility.
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Argentina: did Israel kill off AMIA bombers?
The murky case of a 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center suddenly got murkier thanks to statements by a former Israeli ambassador.
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Chile: Mapuche environmental activist dies
Chilean indigenous activist Nicolasa Quintreman apparently drowned after falling into the reservoir of the dam whose construction she protested for 10 years.
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SCOTUS rules for Daimler in Argentina rights case
The US Supreme Court ruled that DaimlerChrysler AG does not have to face suit in California for human rights violations by a subsidiary that took place in Argentina.
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Argentina: court suspends Monsanto construction
Local residents in the central Argentine province of Córdoba have won a suspension of the giant seed-drying plant Monsanto wants to build in their town.
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Chile: ‘Caravan of Death’ perps guilty of murder
A Chilean judge found eight former members of the military guilty of murder in the notorious 1973 "Caravan of Death" operation, responsible for the killings of nearly 100.
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Chilean anarchists to speak in New York City
Two Chilean anarchists, Gabriel and Pablo, are touring the US East Coast and will speak in New York City Jan. 25, on "Struggling to Win: Anarchists Building Popular Power in Chile."
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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.
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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.
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Chile: four are sentenced for gay youth’s death
A Chilean court handed out stiff sentences for the killing of Daniel Zamudio, but homophobic violence continues.
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Paraguay pressed on indigenous land restitution
An Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling for restitution of usurped lands to a Paraguay indigenous community is going unenforced, Amnesty International charges.