A court sentenced 16 former officials to life in prison for crimes against humanity in the cases of 280 people detained during the “dirty war” against suspected leftists.
Argentina’s first wave of store lootings since 2001 started with people with covered faces breaking into six supermarkets in San Carlos de Bariloche, an Andean ski resort town.
An Argentine judge has opened an investigation into possible involvement of the Ford Motor Co. in the kidnapping and torture of autoworkers during the 1976-1983 “dirty war.”
Dozens of opponents of large-scale mining projects were injured when hundreds of construction workers attacked them at the provincial legislature building in Chubut.
In a break with President Cristina Fernández, two major labor confederations protested the government’s economic policies with a one-day general strike.
Brazilian police launched "Operation Saturation" to crush the Sao Paolo criminal network known as the First Capital Command (PCC), flooding the favelas with paramilitary troops.
Argentina will appeal a US judge’s ruling ordering it to pay $1.33 billion to bondholders—debts stemming from the South American country’s economic collapse in 2001.
Barrick Gold Corporation had to suspend some operations at its troubled Pascua Lama mine after inspectors found unsafe levels of fine particles in the air.
Hundreds of thousands of indignados—”indignant ones,” as econo-protesters call themselves in Spain and Argentina—filled the streets of Buenos Aires, occupying the central plaza.
Chile’s Supreme Court approved a request for the extradition of a former US Navy captain to stand trial for his involvement in the murders of two US citizens in 1973.
The Supreme Court quashed the convictions of two Mapuche prisoners for attempted homicide of police agents; the prisoners had protested their convictions with a 60-day fast.
Thousands marched in Santiago to demand respect for the rights of Chile’s indigenous peoples, while nine Mapuche prisoners maintained a hunger strike.
