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Brazil: protests continue despite concessions
Small protests over a fare increase turned overnight into Brazil’s largest demonstrations since 1984, with three out of four Brazilians backing the actions
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Brazil: tensions had been growing before protests
Well before the massive protests, many Brazilians were organizing against homophobia, the expropriation of indigenous lands, and the diversion of funds to sports events.
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Brazil: where is the protest movement heading?
The Brazilian protest movement echoes many other spontaneous mass movements around the world, and like them it has a number of ambiguities.
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Brazil comes to Zuccotti Park
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.
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Argentina: ex-president gets prison term —almost
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.
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Argentina: eight activists arrested in mine protest
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.
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Chile: Barrick Gold mine may be delayed for years
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.”
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Latin America: marchers reject Monsanto, back food sovereignty
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.
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Argentina war crimes suspect arrested in Uruguay
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.
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Argentina: ex-dictator Videla dies in prison
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.
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Latin America: 7 ex-rulers remain jailed or on trial
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.
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Brazil: 30,000 people displaced for sports events
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.