Hundreds of residents from Rio de Janeiro's favelas descended on the exclusive Copacabana beach area on Sunday to plead for an end to lethal shootouts between drug traffickers and police. Against a backdrop of weekly, even daily, shootings of innocent people in military-style police operations, the demonstrators said Rio's rich and powerful...

Beginning on April 1, anti-government demonstrators have staged daily protests across Venezuela that continue to devolve into violent clashes with riot police, leaving thousands arrested, hundreds injured, and 66 dead. Opposition activists are protesting against the government of President Nicolas Maduro, blaming him for a crippling economic...

Armando Cañizales left his viola at home that day. Eighteen and talented, he was a success story of Venezuela’s state-run music program for the poor. But he decided it was time to join the street protests against the government that had supported his career. As teenagers throwing rocks retreated from a line of soldiers, Mr. Cañizales moved...

The family of imprisoned Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López has posted a video message from the politician on YouTube a month after the besieged government of President Nicolás Maduro released “proof of life” footage in the wake of rumors that he had died.

Argentinean society has come out in force, in what amounts to a civic revolt against a Supreme Court decision that opens the door to early release for inmates convicted of human rights crimes. One day after the legislation was passed, tens of thousands of people took to the streets to demand “no more privileges for perpetrators of crimes...

Despite being met by military police firing tear-gas and live ammunition, as well as armed civilians working with the authorities, some protesters have taken a resolutely non-violent approach in registering their opposition to the ruling United Socialist Party’s attempts to sideline the National Assembly by creating a new assembly to rewrite...

After almost five years of proceedings in relation to unfounded criminal charges of land invasion, the Supreme Court of Justice ruled that there was no reason to pursue the groundless trial of human rights defender Máxima Acuña Atalaya. On February 14 this year, an Amnesty International delegation visited Máxima Acuña and her family to deliver...

The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo marked four decades Sunday (Apr. 30) of marching for accountability in the abductions of their kin by Argentina’s last dictatorship. The four-decade milestone found members increasingly frail but ever determined to see their children’s killers brought to justice. Defying their advancing years, the bereaved...

Of the 29 people now officially known to have died during the last month of anti-government protests in Venezuela, a significant number have been killed by so-called collectives, armed groups loyal to the ruling United Socialist Party set up by former president Hugo Chávez. “They act in a coordinated way under command structures they receive...

About 2,000 people from various indigenous groups gathered in the Brazilian capital to demand the demarcation of their land in a protest that led to confrontations with the security forces in front of congress.