Young people affiliated with Paraguay’s main opposition Authentic Radical Liberal Party took to the streets of the capital city of Asuncion on Saturday to denounce a lack of progress in the investigation into the death of a youth activist, who was killed during a March 31, 2017, police raid on the party’s headquarters. Rodrigo Quintana, a...

More than a thousand people marched from a shanty town to downtown in Rio de Janeiro Sunday to protest the apparent assassination of black lawmaker and human rights activist Marielle Franco. March organizers used megaphones to shout that her "voice will not be silenced," as the protest made its way down the city's main street. Some politicians...

There’s a page in a book in a stack on the floor at the house of Leopoldo López that I think about sometimes. It’s a page that López revisits often; one to which he has returned so many times these past few years, scribbling new ideas in the margin and underlining words and phrases in three different colors of ink and pencil, that studying it...

Argentina’s main worker unions, social movements and human rights groups have planned a massive protest in Buenos Aires to oppose President Mauricio Macri’s economic policies, layoffs, the recent pension reforms, judicial persecution of social leaders, and other intended labor reforms. A series of actions and mobilizations against the austerity...

The Inter-American Human Rights Court has held a public hearing on the legality of Peru's humanitarian pardon for former president Alberto Fujimori, a dictator who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity. Victim's relatives, their legal representatives and representatives of the Peruvian State presented their arguments...

Uruguayan farmers with their tractors, harvesters, trucks, vans and on horseback took to the roads to protest the cost of fuel, power, increased taxes and an over bloated national budget and bureaucracy which they blame for making several farm activities unprofitable, and have had an overall negative impact for the different camp activities....

Five days after the city of Sao Paulo increased public bus, metro and train tariffs from R$3.80 (US$1.17) to R$4 (US$1.24), members of the Free Pass Movement, MPL, have scheduled a mass protest against the hike starting at 5 p.m. local time. The march will begin at Ramos de Azevedo Square in front of the Municipal Theater in the center of Sao...

After a 10-hour overnight marathon session, leaders of the Bolivian government and the country’s leading medical association, the Medical School of Bolivia, have announced an agreement to collectively recreate the country’s medical system, putting an end to its 40-day strike. Minister of Government Carlos Romera told the press Tuesday morning...

“This is not a symbolic action — we have completely paralyzed the country’s most important oil field,” declared a spokesperson for several of the indigenous federations backing the occupation of Peru's petroleum processing plants. The takeover of Lot 192 lasted for 43 days. It was hardly the first protest to shut down the oil facilities...

Thousands of Peruvians took to the streets on Monday (Dec. 25) to protest the pardon granted to former President Alberto Fujimori, with many calling it part of a backroom deal struck to protect the current president from impeachment on corruption charges. The Sunday pardon came three days after abstentions by lawmakers from a party led by...