Latin America

Today we look at the Chilean students’ movement, which led last year’s massive citizen democracy movement — the largest protests since the days of opposition marches to General Augusto Pinochet a generation ago.

A standoff is underway in Texas over construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would run oil from the Canadian tar sands fields to U.S. refineries on the Gulf Coast.

The Palestinian Authority concerned about frequent Israeli settlers attempts to storm the Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, meanwhile, Israeli military conducts 46 military incursions into Palestinain communities..

As consumers worldwide flood Apple Stores to buy the new iPhone 5, we look at why thousands of Chinese workers at a key Apple manufacturing plant walked off the job last week.

We go to Caracas to speak with actor and activist Danny Glover, who traveled to Venezuela to monitor the election. Glover predicts that “we may find that certainly President Chávez and those [other Latin American leaders] who are re-elected will really create a new page in this history of this region.

As the United States commemorates the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the so-called “New World” in 1492, indigenous activists at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, are pushing for schools to teach the “real history of the Americas” and to celebrate indigenous culture.

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez won a third term in office on Sunday with 54.42% of the vote with 90% of the polling stations reporting. In second place was opposition unity candidate Henrique Capriles con 44.47%, announced the president of the electoral authorities.