Women will now be able to legally abort during their first 12 weeks of pregnancy in Mexico City. An estimated 200,000 illegal abortions are performed in Mexico each year, and approximately 1,500 women die per […]
Nearly 2,000 landless and indigenous Brazilians protested lack of land, titles and healthcare on April 16 as a part of the “Indigenous April” and Land Reform Campaign led by the Landless Worker’s Movement. 800 landless […]
The recent media coverage of para-politics in Colombia may be the final nail in the coffin for a proposed U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement that is widely unpopular on both sides of the border. Colombia’s President […]
A union organizer with an AFL-CIO affiliated group that fights for migrant and immigrant agricultural workers was found murdered in the group’s office in Monterrey, Mexico last week. Santiago Rafael Cruz, of the Farm Labor […]
About 800 Haitians and their supporters rallied in front of of the headquarters of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on the corner of 79th Street and Biscayne Boulevard in Miami to demand the […]
Argentina’s teachers and trade unions participated in a nationwide strike Monday April 9, to protest police violence against teachers in the Southern province of Neuquen. Teachers led massive marches throughout Argentina today to demand […]
Interpol has issued an international arrest warrant for three Israelis accused of training right-wing death squads in Colombia. Yair Klein, Melnik Ferry and Tzedaka Abraham are accused of giving military training to mercenaries working for […]
Peru’s President Alan Garcia announced this week that his country needs to take a more violent and militaristic approach in the "War on Drugs". Garcia said that the military should launch air strikes and machine-gun […]
Last week a veiled tension arose between Cuba and Brazil when Brazil’s foreign minister, Celso Amorim, told the AP that Fidel Castro’s criticisms of biofuels were old. Castro wrote in the Granma newspaper that the […]
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