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Latin Waves is a weekly syndicated radio program focused on building community across borders. The show was started as a resource to...

Six days after heavily armed men took the life of a respected anti-mining activist in Cabañas, El Salvador, another prominent community...

“As a revolutionary I will be today, tomorrow and forever on the front lines of my people, all the while...

President Rafael Correa, elected in 2006, and reelected in 2009 under the new constitution, is leading Ecuador through what he...

I was surprised to discover at the end of October while reading the newspaper in Honduras that a coup d'état...

It is ironic that while Canada’s Governor General Michaëlle Jean was replacing the white rose to commemorate 24 hours of...

Some 30,000 people were disappeared during Argentina’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship. Kidnapped by commando groups in the middle of the...

TEGUCIGALPA–Hundreds of Hondurans marched in the capital city on Friday, demanding the return of elected President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales,...

It has been noted, perhaps somewhat unfairly, that by this stage there are probably more books and papers written about the Zapatistas...

A few days prior to the November 29 elections in Honduras, Francisco Varela—the homeless man regularly stationed outside the drive-through...

The history of popular struggle in Bolivia took an unexpected turn when Evo Morales, the candidate of the socialist party...

The dense humidity accumulated by violent Pacific currents, crashes brutally against the peaks of the Panimaquín range along the departments...

The recent financial crisis has only intensified the already acute post-NAFTA woes of Mexican workers. Last month, the government’s firing...

In Gringo: A Coming-of-Age in Latin America, Chesa Boudin writes of sleeping in a hammock on his way up the...

Latin America may soon become the next front in Washington's so-called War on Terror. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY)...

After a week of marches and road blockades, Ecuador's national indigenous movement and the government of President Rafael Correa have initiated talks....

If Evo Morales had not awarded him the most important distinction given by the state, the life of Constantino Lima...

Civil society groups in Argentina are concerned that private security firms, which have mushroomed to 850 in Greater Buenos Aires, employ many...

Upside Down World has received three Project Censored Awards for 2008-2009. Awards went to UDW stories on the World Bank’s...

Two Qeqchi leaders were shot and killed and over a dozen wounded this week near the site of a shuttered nickel...