Already convicted of arms smuggling, now former president Menem is charged with involvement in a fatal arms factory explosion that destroyed evidence of the contraband.
A Chilean judge refused a request to prosecute former general Fernando Matthe, who oversaw the base where Gen. Alberto Bachelet was tortured to death in 1973.
The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism urged Chilean authorities to refrain from applying anti-terrorism laws against the Mapuche indigenous people.
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.
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?
