Bolivian authorities must drop charges against a radio journalist arrested while covering a violent demonstration last week in the capital city of La Paz, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Police detained Agustín Aldo Mamani, a reporter for the Radio del Valle station in the town of Mecapaca, for four days, and are now holding...

Puerto Rico's major unions mounted a protest here Wednesday against the demand from the federally appointed board overseeing the finances of this US commonwealth that public employees work two fewer days per month with a corresponding reduction in pay. Participants marched down various streets in Hato Rey, San Juan's financial district,...

Calling President Donald Trump's remarks about a "military option" in Venezuela disproportionate and vulgar, President Nicolas Maduro has stated that the people in the streets are the best response to the U.S. government, adding that Venezuela is a country of peace and dignity that would not be intimidated. Maduro addressed the multitude of...

A missing campaigner for indigenous rights prompted thousands of people to march through Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires on Friday (Aug. 11). It is feared that Santiago Maldonado may have been taken away by police in Patagonia 10 days ago, when security forces evicted Mapuche Indians from land owned by the Italian clothing firm Benetton. Human...

Members of four Colombian First Nations occupied a mine called La Cantera La Peña de Horeb, in the northern Cesar department, to protest against its illegal operations. The protesters’ allegations were confirmed by the department’s environmental authority, whose representatives said they were going to press charges against Explominerales de la...

As clashes between government security forces and protestors critical of the current government continue in Venezuela, a group of musicians have decided to make their thoughts known by making a version of Prohibido Olvidar, the 1991 song about repressive politics by singer Ruben Blades. Billboard reports that trombonist Johsir Cordova convened...

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.