Mapuche activists are occupying land, planning a march to protest the usurpation of their territory—and questioning the safety of Chile’s growing salmon farming industry.
Mapuche in southwestern Argentina followed through on their promise to block oil drilling by Chevron in their territory—they occupied four oil wells.
Barrick Gold’s problems continue at the colossal Pascua Lama mine high in the Andes as a provincial court upholds its April suspension of construction on the mine.
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.
Argentina’s Mapuche say they will challenge a hydrofracking deal with Chevron, the multinational scofflaw that refuses to pay $19 billion it owes indigenous Ecuadorans.
Declassifiied documents reveal the UK and the US opposed Israel's secret atom bomb program in 1964–but helped keep it secret after Israel bought Argentine uranium.
Port workers and copper miners joined students in the latest marches for free education, while the media and government focused on violence by a few of the marchers.
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?
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.
Small protests over a fare increase turned overnight into Brazil’s largest demonstrations since 1984, with three out of four Brazilians backing the actions
Well before the massive protests, many Brazilians were organizing against homophobia, the expropriation of indigenous lands, and the diversion of funds to sports events.
The Brazilian protest movement echoes many other spontaneous mass movements around the world, and like them it has a number of ambiguities.
