Full Coverage: Latin America & Caribbean

26.08.2009 A group of Peruvian protestors, arrested and accused of "terrorism" after campaigning for the rights of local people to have a say over a planned mine, have finally been released

26.08.2009 An article implying Peruvian Indians should be bombed with napalm has been named the "most racist article" published in the last year by the mainstream media.

21.08.2009 Containers of waste which were alleged to have been illegally exported from the UK to Brazil last month are due to arrive at the port of Felixstowe today (Friday).

14.08.2009 The British Government today took a major step to clean up public life in the Turks and Caicos Islands, following dismissal of a legal challenge to its plans.
+ Britain Suspends Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands

13.08.2009 The Venezuelan president's attempt to control the media has hit a wall of Twitter protest. Guardian

12.08.2009 The first cases of swine flu have just been reported amongst Amazonian Indians, raising experts' fears of a devastating contagion amongst peoples with no immunity to outside diseases.

06.08.2009 University students in the US and the UK are holding a "Transatlantic Day of Action" against alleged sweatshop abuses by billionaire investor Warren Buffett's clothing company, Fruit of the Loom-Russell Corporation.
+ Sweatshop protest at new UK Primark store

05.08.2009 An environmental group claimed another success in its campaign to save the Amazon when British shoemaker Clarks agreed not to source leather products from Amazon deforestation.