Chile Mining Doubles in a Decade Under Bachelet

Labor rights are deteriorating as companies are being investigated for collusion with the government. Full Story

Bolivia and Peru Indigenous Defy Borders, Link Arms

Two towns facing each other across from Lake Titicaca signed an agreement of brotherhood to cooperate on a cultural and political level. Full Story

The bloc welcomed the U.S.'s decision to free political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera but acknowledged the territory has a long way to go.

Schafik Handal organized workers and campesinos against repressive right-wing governments. Now, El Salvador is officially set to remember him.

The extradition comes a day ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration.

The change to who determines land demarcations is likely to weaken the rights of Brazil's Indigenous.

Teori Zavascki was overseeing Operation Car Wash, the corruption scandal that threatens to tear apart the ruling coalition of President Michel Temer.

Laura Leonor Vasquez Pineda was a fierce opponent of mining near the El Escobal silver mine owned by the Canadian company Tahoe Resources.

In recent weeks, 140 people have died in outbreaks of violence in Brazil's overpopulated penitentiary system.