Mike Gatehouse
Mayor Susana Villarán is fighting for her survival in a recall election engineered by a predecessor facing corruption charges
Haiti is the only country in the world where provision of sanitation decreased in the last decade: cholera will remain endemic for many years.
Brazilian military documents reveal that in 1967 Argentina's military government sent napalm bombs to Bolivia to be used against guerrillas led by Ernesto Che Guevara.
Conflict is likely to sharpen in the Amazon area of south eastern Peru over plans to drill wells in Lot 88 home to the Kugapakori Nahua-Nanti reserve.
The arbitrary detention of the Bolivian President's plane has proved to be a diplomatic disaster for the US. In Brazil, the Pope gave backing to social movements and demands for change. Across the Region the spirit of independence is growing.
An interview with Claudia Paz y Paz, the prosecutor responsible for putting Efraín Ríos Montt on trial for genocide.
CLAUK is a coalition of Latin American organisations campaigning for official recognition of their community as an ethnic minority, for better access to health services and labour rights.
ENCA works directly with communities in Central America, struggling for environmental and social justice, and provides small-scale funding for sustainable projects.
"White folk believe that all we seek is land. But what we really need is the earth." Indigenous people in Brazil spell out clear demands to keep their culture alive.