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Argentina: Chinese spaceport plan protested
Protesters marched to a construction site in Argentina's Neuquén province where plans are moving ahead for a spaceport to be overseen by China's space agency.
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Chile: Mapuche continue drive for land
After two decades of struggle Mapuche communities are still trying to regain ancestral land. Meanwhile, forestry companies try to blame major fires on Mapuche activists.
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Chile: two found guilty in Horman murder case
After more than 41 years, two military officers have been brought to justice for the murder of two US citizens in the army's 1973 coup.
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Argentina: Fernández flips on prosecutor’s ‘suicide’
President Cristina Fernández changed her tune on the supposed "suicide" of the prosecutor investigating a massive anti-Semitic bombing—found dead just before he was to testify.
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Argentina: many are suspected in AMIA cover-up
It's not clear that anyone in Argentina's political class really wants the AMIA case solved. Israel and the US don't look much better. And suspect suicides are nothing new in Argentina.
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Argentina: president charged in terror cover-up
A prosecutor in Argentina was killed days after he accused President Cristina Fernández of complicity in covering up Iran's involvement in a 1994 terrorist attack.
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Latin America: why did Monsanto profits dip?
South America remains a huge market for Monsanto's GM seeds, but grassroots resistance may be starting to affect the company's bottom line.
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Chile: court rejects new Pascua Lama appeal
Barrick Gold's problems with its giant mine high in the Andes show no signs of going away. Local activists are pushing to have Chile's government revoke the mine's permit.
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Brazil: truth commission report on military rule
Brazil's National Truth Commission released a long-awaited report finding that the military regime engaged in massive human rights violations between 1964 and 1985.
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Chile: four women file sexual torture complaint
A group of Chilean women are trying to have the courts recognize the sort of sexual violence they suffered during the Pinochet dictatorship as a separate category of crime.
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Police extermination campaign in Brazil’s favelas?
Media reports in Brazil suggest that the crackdown on favela gangs in the prelude to this year's contentious World Cup was actually a police extermination campaign of favela youth.
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Chile: local Mapuche leader murdered
Unknown assailants killed a spokesperson for a Mapuche community that has carried out several land occupations. He was the second activist from his family to die violently.