Latin America

America's “pivot” to Asia along with decades of heavy-handed policy give China an opportunity to rebalance global powers.

In the six pages that Human Rights Watch dedicates to Venezuela in its World Report 2014, released this week, it manages to tell at least 30 serious lies, distortions, …

As farmworkers continue to fight for fair wages and safe working conditions across the United States, Goodman looks at the life of legendary organizer Cesar Chavez

Human rights groups have been raising concerns over these fast-evolving technologies, citing the potential for abuse by various state agencies.

With a coordinated oppositional strategy both in the “halls of power” and in the streets, the anti-coup resistance in Honduras may have an opportunity to curtail the most egregious …

The small Latin American country of Uruguay has become the only country that allows growing and selling marijuana.

When the first School of the Americas, or SOA, mass protest was held in 1990, its organizers probably didnu2019t think they would still be at it 23 years later.

In the 1980s, New York mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio traveled to Nicaragua. With the election looming, the media is recalling his activism, which, like mine, was derided at …

The prison is run by Corrections Corporation of America, whose reported revenue has doubled throughout the 2000s as the federal government has contracted it to hold an increasing number …

While the right wing forces couldn't overwhelm the protests, their emergence nonetheless revealed the demonstrationsu2019 uncertain path.