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Squatter ‘mega-eviction’ rocks Rio de Janeiro
More than 1,500 Military Police were mobilized to evict thousands of squatters who had recently taken over an abandoned office complex in Rio de Janeiro.
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Paraguay: imprisoned campesinos on hunger strike
Five Paraguayan campesinos arrested during a violent squatter eviction in 2012 and held since then without trial are six weeks into a hunger strike.
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Paraguay: indigenous Aché people charge genocide
The Aché indigenous people of Paraguay brought suit in an Argentine court demanding reparations for "genocide" carried out under the late Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner.
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Argentina: clash with police in Chaco water protest
More than 10 were injured in Argentina's Gran Chaco as police broke up a road blockade by indigenous campesinos who were protesting lack of potable water in their villages.
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Chile: wildcat strike paralyzes ports
A wildcat strike has shut down several Chilean ports for the past three weeks, with the fruit and mineral industries claiming $100 million in losses.
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Brazil: prison violence spills into streets —again
The prison crisis in Brazil made brief headlines after newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo released a gruesome video of gang warfare victims at the violence-plagued Pedrinhas facility.
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Chilean anarchists to speak in New York City
Two Chilean anarchists, Gabriel and Pablo, are touring the US East Coast and will speak in New York City Jan. 25, on "Struggling to Win: Anarchists Building Popular Power in Chile."
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Paraguay pressed on indigenous land restitution
An Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling for restitution of usurped lands to a Paraguay indigenous community is going unenforced, Amnesty International charges.
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Brazil: deadly prison riot sets off angry protests
At least 13 inmates were killed and some 30 injured in a clash between rival gangs at Pedrinhas prison in São Luis, in Brazil’s northeastern state of Maranhão.
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Paraguay: military unleashed to fight guerillas
Paraguay’s Congress voted up broad powers allowing the new right-wing president to use the armed forces for domestic policing, following a wave of guerilla attacks on estates.
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Brazil: 10 dead as police raid favela
At least 10 people were killed when elite troops from the Special Operations Battalion (BOPE) of Brazil’s Military Police raided Nova Holanda favela in Rio de Janeiro.
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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.