A court in Argentina sentenced the country’s last military dictator Reynaldo Bignone to life in prison for crimes against humanity committed during his rule in 1982 and ’83.
The election of Buenos Aires’ Cardinal Bergoglio as Pope Francis deepens growing concerns about the complicity of the Catholic Church in Argentina’s “Dirty War” of the 1970s.
A court in Argentina found that the country’s Catholic Church was complicit with crimes committed during the dictatorship’s “dirty war” on leftist dissidents in the 1970s.
Cícero Guedes dos Santos, a leader of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) who led an occupation of unused property in Rio de Janeiro state, was shot dead by unknown gunmen.
A new war of words between the UK and Argentina over the Malvinas/Falklands follows a similar one last month over a disputed region of Antarctica.
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.
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.
Santiago exploded into a night of street fighting that left one officer of the Carabineros dead after a court ruled that President Salvador Allende committed suicide during the 1973 coup.
A Brazilian judge ruled that permits for more than 120 proposed hydro-electric dams in the Upper Paraguay River Basin cannot be issued without impact assessments.
Brazil has mobilized nearly 9,000 military troops to its borders with four neighboring countries as part of an operation aimed at interrupting narco-trafficking networks.
Former Argentine dictator Jorge Videla was condemned to 50 years in prison for the abduction of babies of “disappeared” dissidents. Another former dictator, Reynaldo Bignone, received 15 years on related charges.
Peasants throughout Paraguay have called for a national mobilization to oppose the impeachment and removal of populist President Fernando Lugo—called an “express coup d’etat” carried out in violation of legal norms.
