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.
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.
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.
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.
Argentina's center-left government passed a law to attract foreign investment in oil production, especially for hydrofracking in the Vaca Muerta shale deposits.
Argentina has gained broad international support in its fight with two US hedge funds, but the US judge on the case isn't impressed: he declared the country in contempt.
Chilean authorities arrested three for a bombing in Santiago now being blamed on a shadowy international network which seems to be most active in Greece.
Some media were quick to blame an explosion in downtown Santiago on anarchist or guerrilla groups, but others pointed to supporters of the old military dictatorship.
Brazilian authorities reached a deal with inmates after a deadly prison uprising at Cascavel in Paraná state—one of many facilities where control of wards has been left to gangs.
The UN mission in Haiti influenced the creation of special urban police units in Brazil—and helped the Brazilian military make up for shortfalls in its training budget.
Argentina wants to sue the US at the World Court for forcing the country into default on its debt, but the US has a habit of ignoring the court and its decisions.
Argentina has defaulted for the second time in 13 years, thanks to US investors and US courts. Economists warn that the precedent could threaten the global financial system.
