October 30, 2009 Upside Down World [Regions > Americas > Honduras]
	Agreement to End Honduran Coup Marks Victory and Challenge -- On the night of Oct. 29, Honduras' de facto regime finally agreed to allow Congress to vote to "restore full executive power prior to June 28". Conceding to international and national pressure, the Honduran coup appears to be facing its final days.
October 29, 2009 Toward Freedom [Regions > Americas > Argentina]
	Argentina: Disappearing Farmers, Disappearing Food -- Worldwide, industrial mono-culture farming has displaced traditional food production and farmers, wreaking havoc on food prices and food sovereignty. In response, peasants and small farmers organized actions in more than 53 countries on October 15 for International Food Day as an initiative of Via Campesina, one of the largest independent social movement organizations, representing nearly 150 million people globally.
October 27, 2009 Upside Down World [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Mexico's Utility Union Bust Reveals Flaws in NAFTA -- At midnight on Octover 10, President Felipe Calderon issued an executive decree to liquidate the company and its union, one of the strongest and most vocal independent unions in the nation. Ironically, the current economic crisis provided the Calderon Administration its strategic opportunity to cut the underfunded company and malign the union.
October 20, 2009 The Guardian [Regions > Americas > Nicaragua]
	Nicaragua court allows Ortega to seek new term in 2011 -- Leftist Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega appears to have won the right to seek re-election in 2011, though opponents call the decision illegal and vow to fight it.
October 19, 2009 Upside Down World [Regions > Americas > Peru]
	The Neoliberal Crusade For Resources on Indigenous Lands in the Peruvian Amazon -- Despite the repeal of Peruvian President Alan Garcia’s controversial executive decrees that attempted to open Peru to foreign investment, it appears as though the Amazon is still very much for sale.
October 16, 2009 Upside Down World [Regions > Americas > Peru]
	Peru: Gov't Seeks Legal Shield for Security Forces -- The Peruvian government has moved to protect the armed forces and police against investigations for crimes committed in the line of duty, especially in areas convulsed by social protests.
October 12, 2009 Common Dreams [The Latest News]
	Premature Peace Prize or Call to Action? -- Medea Benjamin and Kevin Martin of Peace Action respond to President Barack Obama's recent Nobel Peace Prize Award.
October 12, 2009 BBC News [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Mexico shuts troubled energy firm -- Mexico has closed a state-run energy distribution firm with about 40,000 employees and 25 million customers, blaming the scale of its losses.
October 12, 2009 Upside Down World [Regions > Americas > Honduras]
	Honduran Accords Hung Up on Zelaya's Reinstatement -- Talks between representatives of the coup regime and the constitutional government of President Manuel Zelaya reached consensus on eight of nine points yesterday. But the missing point is the same one that that has has held up any agreement to end the stand-off since Day One of the coup d'état over three months ago.
October 10, 2009 The New York Times [Regions > Americas > Argentina]
	Argentina Enacts Law on Broadcasters -- Argentina enacted a controversial law on Saturday that gives the government more control over the broadcast media.
October 09, 2009 San Francisco Chronicle [Regions > Americas > Nicaragua]
	Nonprofits team up to bring mammograms to the bank -- Women in Nicaragua may soon get mammograms while they bank, thanks to the work of two Seattle nonprofit groups.
October 07, 2009 Upside Down World [Regions > Americas > Venezuela]
	Chavez Re-launches Venezuela’s Flagship “Barrio Adentro” Healthcare Program -- President Hugo Chavez inaugurated three new Integral Diagnostic Centres (CDI's) in Mérida, Miranda, and Bolívar states as part of a plan to relaunch the government's flagship healthcare program Mission Barrio Adentro (Inside the Barrio)
October 07, 2009 Toward Freedom [Regions > Americas > Nicaragua]
	The Property Waiver Regime: Nicaragua’s Continued Punishment -- Antiquated legislation, such as the withholding of aid, originally pertaining to Cuba and beginning during the Cold War has not only been updated and maintained, but has been applied to the detriment of other countries, Nicaragua included.
October 05, 2009 CommonDreams.Org [Regions > Brazil]
	Brazil Cattle Industry Giants Unite in Banning Amazon Destruction -- In a major step forward for climate protection, today four of the biggest players in the global cattle industry joined forces to ban the purchase of cattle from newly deforested areas of the Brazilian Amazon from their supply chains, backing Greenpeace's call for zero deforestation in the rainforest.
October 05, 2009 The Huffington Post [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Thanks to Operation Gatekeeper, Deathtoll Increases to Over 5,000 -- Fifteen years of failed immigration policy has not improved the numbers of undocumented aliens entering the country and has cost millions in dollars and human suffering.
October 05, 2009 Upside Down World [Regions > Americas > Honduras]
	Washington Plays Both Sides on Honduran Coup -- The good news is that Washington has finally begun to take stronger actions on Honduras. The bad news is that the actions completely contradict each other, resulting in ambiguity, paralysis and infighting as the Honduran crisis explodes.
October 05, 2009 BBC News [Regions > Americas > Honduras]
	Honduras lifts emergency decree -- Honduras' interim leader has lifted an emergency decree imposed after the country's ousted President Manuel Zelaya returned to the country.
October 03, 2009 The Detroit News Online [Regions > Brazil]
	After Olympic party, hard work ahead for Brazil -- As Rio awoke from a night of celebration after being awarded the 2016 Olympics, Brazil was already looking ahead to years of hard work in what will be a historic time in Latin America's biggest nation.
October 03, 2009 San Francisco Chronicle [Regions > Americas > Venezuela]
	Venezuela buys ConocoPhillips' gas project stake -- Venezuela's state oil company has purchased ConocoPhillips' 40 percent stake in a joint natural gas venture with Chevron Corp.
October 01, 2009 Upside Down World [Regions > Americas > Guatemala]
	Recent Killings Linked to Canadian-owned Nickel Mine in Guatemala -- Two Qeqchi leaders were shot and killed and over a dozen wounded this week near the site of a shuttered nickel mine in Guatemala.
October 01, 2009 Daily Press [Regions > Americas > Ecuador]
	Shuar Indians reinforce roadblock in dispute with Ecuador's government over mining, water laws -- Several hundred Shuar Indians reinforced a highway blockade that police failed to break up earlier in a bloody melee that left one Indian dead and at least 40 police injured.
September 30, 2009 Amnesty International [Regions > Americas > Honduras]
	Journalists in Honduras: "They know who we are" -- A journalist in Honduras recounts the hostile government shutdown of Radio Globo during the country's recent suspension of civil rights.
September 28, 2009 Yahoo News [Regions > Americas > Honduras]
	Coup-installed Honduras leader to revive liberties -- The coup-installed president of Honduras backed down Monday from an escalating standoff with protesters and suggested he would restore civil liberties and reopen dissident television and radio stations by the end of the week.
September 28, 2009 BBC News [Regions > Americas > Peru]
	Fujimori pleads guilty to bribery -- Ex-Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, has pleaded guilty to bribery and illegal phone-tapping of journalists, businessmen and opposition politicians.
September 27, 2009 BBC News [Regions > Americas > Venezuela]
	Venezuela summit criticises West -- The leaders of Libya and Venezuela have called on Africa and South America to create a new alliance to counter Western dominance.
September 25, 2009 CommonDreams.Org [Regions > Americas > Costa Rica]
	Costa Rica Creates Department of Peace -- On Monday, September 14, the Costa Rican legislature passed a law changing the name of the country's justice ministry to the Ministry of Justice and Peace, making the department the first of its kind in Latin America and only the third in the world.
September 17, 2009 BBC News [Regions > Americas > Venezuela]
	China in huge Venezuela oil deal -- Venezuela has announced a $16bn investment deal with China for oil exploration in the Orinoco river.
September 15, 2009 Upside Down World [Regions > Americas > Bolivia]
	Bolivia: A Presidential Race with a Foregone Conclusion -- President Evo Morales and Vice President Álvaro García are set to handily win the Dec. 6 elections in Bolivia, against a fragmented opposition. A second term for Morales would give the Movement to Socialism (MAS) a chance to consolidate what it has called the "re-founding" of the Bolivian state on the basis of greater participation by indigenous people and a strengthening of their rights.
September 09, 2009 BBC News [Regions > Americas > Guatemala]
	Guatemala declares hunger crisis -- Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has declared a "state of public calamity" to try to mobilize funding to tackle severe food shortages in the country.
September 02, 2009 The New York Times [Regions > Americas > Mexico]
	Leader Urges Cooperation Against Ills Mexico Faces -- In his annual state of the union address, President Felipe Calderón described a country tested by the global economic crisis, the swine flu pandemic, rising drug violence, drought and plummeting oil production.