Spain has extradited pilot Julio Alberto Poch, veteran of the notorious Naval Mechanics School, to Argentina to face trial for his alleged role in the nation’s 1976-83 “Dirty War.”
Latin Americans generally used the traditional International Workers Day marches on May 1 this year to protest around national issues.
A Uruguayan judge handed down a 20-year term to ex-foreign minister Juan Carlos Blanco in the case of a “disappeared” schoolteacher.
Unidentified assailants killed “dirty war” survivor Silvia Suppo in her crafts shop in the small town of Rafaela in Argentina’s northeastern Santa Fe province.
Chilean social and grassroots organizations have formed a solidarity network in response to what they call authorities’ insufficient action in the wake of the devastating earthquake.
Bolivia will gain access to Uruguay’s ports in exchange for a pledge of natural gas exports to Montevideo in an agreement signed in La Paz by presidents Evo Morales and José Mujica.
President Michelle Bachelet has declared a “state of catastrophe” in Concepción in the wake of the devastating earthquake, placing the zone under control of the armed forces.
Several British companies are poised to begin offshore exploration in waters around the Falkand Islands—sparking a diplomatic row with Argentina, which claims the archipelago.
Meeting in Porto Alegre for the 10th annual World Social Forum, 24 Latin American popular organizations issued a statement denouncing a “new, aggressive escalation of imperialism.”
A court in Nuremberg has issued an arrest warrant for Argentina’s former dictator Jorge Videla for helping to cover up the death of a German citizen in 1978.
Another indigenous Guarani leader, Osmair Martins Ximenes, was killed in Brazil last week, the latest in a string of killings related to the theft of the people’s land.
Chile’s presidential race heads for a run-off just as murder charges are brought in the death of candidate Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle’s father—on the likely orders of late dictator Augusto Pinochet.
