New York’s Zuccotti Park filled up with Brazilians gathering in support of the protests that have for days been shaking Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte and other cities.
Argentina’s highest criminal court sentenced ex-president Carlos Menem to prison for arms trafficking, but due to official immunity he will likely serve no time.
Greenpeace activists carried out a banner drop to dramatize the threat Barrick Gold’s open-pit mining poses to a biosphere reserve in the western province of San Juan.
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.
Col. Alberto Julio Candiotti, a former Argentinine military officer wanted for crimes committed during the country’s 1976-1983 “Dirty War,” was arrested in Montevideo.
The leader of Argentina’s 1976 coup and the 1976-1983 “dirty war” has died in prison—the former US officials who covered up his atrocities are still free.
Five former South American dictators are in prison for crimes committed under their regimes; Peru's Morales Bermúdez and Haiti's Jean-Claude Duvalier also face charges.
Rio relocates thousands for the World Cup and the Olympics; activists and social scientists say the city’s just trying to push poorer residents off valuable real estate.
The Buenos Aires police use rubber bullets against nurses and mental patients, the latest episode in the city government’s campaign against public property.
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.
