Indigenous Mapuche-Tehuelche organizations and allied groups marched in the western Argentine province of Chubut to support Santa Rosa Leleque community members in their struggle with Benetton.
South Americans celebrated International Women’s Day on the holiday’s 100th anniversary, with actions calling attention to the murders of women and with other forms of violence against women.
Brazilian police are questioning a man accused of driving his car at high speed through a crowd of Critical Mass cyclists in Porto Alegre, injuring at least 12.
An Argentine court commenced the trial of former dictators Jorge Videla and Reynaldo Bignone for overseeing the theft of babies born to political prisoners during the “Dirty War.”
In a significant setback for Chilean prosecutors, judges in Cañete in the central province of Arauco voted not to convict 17 indigenous Mapuche activists on “terrorism” charges.
Protesters in the southern Chile region of Magallanes y Antártica Chilena have erected road blockades, halting traffic in response to a government hike in fuel prices.
Indigenous groups in Argentina are lobbying for Julio Argentino Roca, the army general who conquered Patagonia, to be recognized as a political criminal who exterminated indigenous peoples.
Argentine labor ministry inspectors announced the discovery of 199 farm workers in conditions close to slavery on estates in the area of San Pedro, Buenos Aires province.
Police in Argentina sealed off the Villa Soldati area of Buenos Aires following violence between squatters, authorities and local residents in which at least three have been killed.
Voters chose Dilma Rousseff of the leftist Workers Party (PT) to be Brazil’s 36th president in a runoff election. Rousseff, who takes office in January, will be the country’s first woman president.
Thousands of Argentines rallied in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires to protest the killing of the student Mariano Ferreyra during a demonstration the day before.
Indigenous peoples marched throughout the hemisphere on Oct. 12, while El Salvador’s President Mauricio Funes apologized in the name of the state for centuries of “persecution and extermination.”
