At least 10 countries worldwide will participate in protests against Chevron’s actions in Ecuador that will begin on May 21. 

Colombia’s farmers and miners began a new national strike, and the government deployed thousands of police in response. 

Increased invasions of indigenous lands are pushing authorities to carry out evictions of those who have occupied the properties. 

Improved supply of products in Venezuela means fewer shortages. 

A study shows that 34% of young children under six years of age in Chile are obese or overweight, while community representatives from around the country joined in a protest of Pinochet-era legislation that privatized the management of water.   

President Dilma Rousseff said she will be a candidate with or without support from all of her party’s allies. 

Prostitution moves to daylight hours in northern Ribeirão Preto for security reasons. 

In the last five years at least180,000 Paraguayans emigrated in search of better economic opportunities and 55% of them were women under 25 years of age, according to a study published by Population Fund of the United Nations (UNFPA) in Paraguay.  

Latin America is the most unequal region in the world according to the United Nations, where 10% of population takes 40% of revenues. 

Groups of students from the Universidad de Los Andes in Mérida went naked around the state capital to protest the treatment of fellow students in Caracas, where they were beaten and stripped at the Central University of Venezuela.