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Mining Companies, Foreign Investors Driving Destruction of Amazon, Violation of Indigenous Rights

Rights groups in Brazil say British, Canadian, US, Brazilian & Peruvian mining companies plan to expand operations in the Brazilian Amazon.

Today’s featured band is Sonora Bahia de Rafael Mejia from Colombia with the song “Merecumbe Rock and Roll”.

A struggle for the defense of their territories waged by indigenous Maya Q’eqchi’ communities in eastern Guatemala…

Abortion rights advocates gathered outside the Colombian Constitutional Court in the capital Bogotá Monday celebrating the decision.

The hope of arriving “healthy” to US territory united them. On Thursday afternoon, January 20, a group of more than 200 Nicaraguans…

It takes time to dismantle a gangster state that has the Army and the Police on its side. Now there’s a ray of light…

The Permanent Council of the regional organization will address the Nicaraguan crisis this Friday, February 18th.

Journalists disrupted a session of Congress to denounce the murder of five reporters this year and to call for an end to impunity for killers

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who recently left office, has been arrested on drug trafficking charges…

Less than a month remains before Colombia holds Parliamentary elections. They will also serve as a sort of primary elections for president.