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In August this year, a march of 4,000 indigenous people set off from the Isiboro Secure National Park, a protected Amazon region in eastern Bolivia known as Tipnis.

The young have taken the streets of Chile, and transformed them into theatres, circuses and platforms for a huge protest movement.

Chilean students joined the 100,000-strong protest against attacks on education last week. They are now set to join workers in a national strike against the government.

Hugo Chavez appeared on the presidential balcony in Caracas on 5 July, Venezuelan Independence Day. He is recovering from cancer and is obviously very ill.

Peru’s presidential election this week could be a critical moment in the battle against neoliberalism across Latin America.

A strike organised by police officers in Ecuador turned into an attempted coup last week.

Brazil’s presidential elections have been forced into a second round as Workers Party (PT) candidate Dilma Rousseff, selected to replace president Lula, fell 3 percent short of the 50 percent needed to win the election outright.

Actitud Calle means "street attitude"—why are the streets important?

The Chilean government closed down the San José mine—where 33 miners are still trapped underground—in 2007 over health and safety failures.

The film director Oliver Stone’s latest documentary, South of the Border, sets out to counter the lies and myths about the revolutions in Latin America over the last decade.

Earthquakes are events that expose what is hidden in a society. They are crises that reveal the best and the worst of people.

Tens of thousands of people in Haiti are dead and hundreds of thousands more wounded or homeless after the earthquake that tore through the country on Tuesday.