On Sept. 7, Salvadoran activists representing 37 different organizations formed a new alliance that will defend the public right to water. The "National Forum for the Defense of the Sustainability and the Right to Water" was organized in […]
The city of Pereira, Colombia, was the most violent in Colombia in 2005, reporting 488 killings last year, and has a per capita rate of 97 murders per 100,000 residents, double the national level. 90% […]
Violence continues on the 33rd anniversary of the military coup lead by Pinochet in Chile. Many Chileans resent the gradual return to democracy that left military perpetrators of torture and assassination free and wealthy (including […]
SANTIAGO, Chile: Any woman over 14 can now ask a physician for a prescription for birth control without the permission of her parents, and the contraceptives, including the morning after pill, will be provided free […]
According to the Panama Canal Authority , (ACP) on July 14, Panama’s National Assembly unanimously approved the proposal to expand the Panama Canal. In addition, the Assembly created and passed a law mandating a national […]
Residents of Combayo, Peru, blocked roads leading to Yanacocha, Latin America’s most productive Gold Mine from August 27-30. They otests earlier in August led to the death of one protester at the hands of police. […]
Hermosa Maquila Workers Put Former Boss in the Hotseat Women workers from the now-closed “Hermosa Manufacturing” maquila factory announced that Hermosa owner, Joaquin Salvador Montalvo, will be the subject of a court hearing set for […]
A U.S. based environmental research group, the Inter-Amerian Association for Environmental Defense, has published a study of U.S. funded aerial spraying of coca crops in Colombia is damaging health, water, food crops and the natural […]
Unionized workers in El Salvador’s privatized telecommunications sector won a major court decision in their struggle to form an industrial union last week. The Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ in Spanish) found that the Salvadoran […]
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