Mario Ernesto Villanueva Madrid, ex-governor of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, was extradited to the US to face charges of accepting some $20 million in bribes from the Juárez Cartel.
A Mexican military investigation found that three children killed on a highway in Tamaulipas were caught in the crossfire of rival narco gangs—but survivors say soldiers fired without cause.
A Honduran truth and reconciliation commission began investigating the June 2009 coup that removed Manuel Zelaya from power—as a wave of killings of journalists has terrorized the country.
Sendero Luminoso, thought to be confined to a small pocket of high jungle known as the Apurimac-Ene River Valley, launched an attack on a coca-eradication team in the Upper Huallaga Valley.
Paraguay is moving towards a “state of exception” in response to the emergence of the rebel Army of the Paraguayan People (EPP), with speculation of ties to Colombia’s FARC.
In a case sensationalized by the Bolivian press as a crackdown on a “Norwegian Cartel,” two Norwegians were sentenced on charges of attempting to smuggle 22 kilos of cocaine out of the country.
The five ex-military chiefs who made up the Bolivian High Command in 2003 were cited for the apparent destruction of Armed Forces documents related to “Black October” violence of that year.
Otto Reich was among those who gathered at the Rayburn House Office Building to complain about the “deteriorating democratic system” in Bolivia under leftist President Evo Morales.
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales arrived at the UN to present the conclusions of the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of the Mother Earth (CMPCC).
Strikes and protests against the Bolivian government’s wage hike offers this week marked a break by organized labor with the leftist government of President Evo Morales.
On a tour of Colombia and Peru, Defense Secretary Robert Gates voiced support for the US-Colombia FTA and hailed Bogotá as a human rights example for the region that Lima should emulate.
Talks are underway in Lima between small-scale miners and Peru’s Ministry of Mines following deadly repression of a protest campaign by miners to demand land and prospecting rights.
