During the OAS’s 41st general assembly held in El Salvador on Tuesday, Bolivia will present its hundred years claim for sovereign access to the Pacific Ocean. Bolivia lost a part of its territory and maritime access during a war with Chile in 1879, and has asked for reconsideration ever since. Lack of access to sea [...]

The student demonstrations are beginning to develop all over the country. The strikes and sit-ins of the universities in the city of Santiago continue. Students are demanding that the Chilean government increase funding for public education. Regional universities of Chile, such as the Catholic University of Valparaíso and the University of Playa Ancha, are continuing sit-ins [...]

Gana Perú leader Ollanta Humala has won the Peruvian presidential election with 51.37% of the votes. This constitutes a narrow lead over his second round run-off competitor Keiko Fujimori. The Oficina Nacional de Procesos Electorales indicated that the percentage difference between left-wing Humala and conservative Fujimori is 2.51 points. With some votes not yet counted [...]

The poet Javier Sicilia is leading protests spreading throughout Mexican cities this week, rejecting the so-called war against drugs trafficking. He questioned the president Felipe Calderón’s indifference towards the protests. “We are still waiting for a message from the president,” the poet remarked this Sunday during the procession of the ‘Caravana del Dolor’. The protest [...]

Yesterday a march organised by the Confederation of Students of Chile (CONFECH) moved around 30 thousand university students to the Ministry of Education to demand greater public education budget. The march was supported by the rectors of the University of Santiago and the Technical Metropolitan University. They also received the membership of secondary students and [...]

The representative of the People’s National Front, Rafael Alegría, said that “there can be no forgetting or pardon” for the crimes of the 2009 coup, after the reinstatement of Honduras to the OEA. The representative told Telesur, “There should have already been trials aimed at condemning the perpetrators of the coup and those who committed [...]

The leaders of the rural community in the South of Puno, in Peru, suspended the strike. They agreed to open the border with Bolivia in Desaguadero. The blocked the road in rejection to mining projects in the region. Representatives decided to suspend the strike and blockades to facilitate the election on 5th June. This was [...]

Nearly three thousand people have maintained a roadblock for 21 days in the Puno region of south-eastern Peru, near the Bolivian border. There has been mobilisation in Plaza de Armas, in the same region. They reject the concessions which have been given to mining projects. The Aymara leader and representative of the border region of [...]

The National Front of Popular Resistance (FNRP) in Honduras has achieved the return of former president, Manuel Zelaya, not only to the country, but also as a political force. He maintains his demands of punishment for those who carried out the military coup and violated human rights. The spokesman for the FNRP, Juan Barahona, said [...]

Nearly 15 million people were summoned by ecological organizations this Saturday to repudiate HidroAysén project. They congregated in Santiago de Chile, capital city of Chile. Demonstrator s marched to the government house, the Palacio de la Moneda, where a stage was set up. During the protest, demonstrators displayed banners that read “Patagonia without dams” and [...]