News Briefs

(IPS) – Human rights groups and legal experts are concerned that a law passed by the Argentine Congress in the early hours of Thursday morning to crack down on terrorism could be used to criminalise […]

Source: Hispanically Speaking News Bolivia will become the first McDonald’s-free Latin American nation, after struggling for more than a decade to keep their numbers out of ‘the red.’ After 14 years in the nation and […]

Source: Latin America Working Group “It was like out of a movie. Planes, helicopters, flying in over our houses. No one knew they were coming.” Irma Yolanda told us. “The women were in our houses […]

(IPS/Haiti Grassroots Watch) – Ever since being elected earlier this year, Haitian President Michel Martelly and his team have been betting Haiti’s reconstruction on foreign investors. “We are ready for new ideas and new businesses, […]

(IPS/Haiti Grassroots Watch) – “Haiti is open for business.” That’s what President Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly said at a recent ceremony as he and former U.S. president Bill Clinton laid a cornerstone for a giant […]

Source: Grassroots International Despite being denied, again, title to the land on which they have labored, there is no quit in this group of women from El Estribo. Hurricanes, coups, fire and political manipulation are not […]

Gen. Iván Ramírez Led Unit that “Tortured and Killed” Palace of Justice Detainees in 1985 “Infamous” Commander “was “Passing Military Intelligence to the Paramilitaries,” according to U.S. Ambassador Source: National Security Archive A Colombian army […]

Letter to President Santos Dear Mr. President,  I am writing to express my deep concern with the “justice system reform” bill your administration is currently promoting that would expand the scope of military jurisdiction over […]

Source: Survival International The Paraguayan government has this week signed an agreement with Enxet Indians to hand back 1,000 hectares of their ancestral land. The decision comes after a long legal battle between the indigenous […]

(IPS) – Peruvian President Ollanta Humala is taking an increasingly hard-line stance against protests, and is losing important allies less than five months into his term. The centrist party led by former president Alejandro Toledo, […]