Forced displacements by federal police of peasant settlements in the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve follow a new initiative to establish biofuel production in Chiapas.
The US closed its consular office in the border city of Reynosa citing local narco-violence, as killings, abductions, torture and beaheadings were reported across Mexico.
The UN International Narcotics Control Board finds an 8% decrease in overall coca production in South America last year—but a 45% increase in Peru.
An army sergeant was killed and another wounded in a Sendero Luminoso attack on Bajo Somabeni Counter-Terrorist Base in Peru’s conflicted RÃo ApurÃmac-Ene Valley (VRAE).
Indigenous rights advocates in Peru are protesting a proposal for internal military hearings instead of homicide charges for two National Police generals accused in the Bagua massacre.
Peru’s Amazonian indigenous alliance AIDESEP met in Lima with national authorities to arrive at a “plan for protection of indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation and initial contact.”
Indigenous peoples are once again caught in the middle as the Colombian army launches a major offensive against the FARC guerillas in the southern Andean department of Cauca.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced the creation of a new Campesino Militia, which will be under the command of the national Bolivarian Armed Forces (FAB).
Christian families are fleeing Mosul in droves in the aftermath of the murder of a Christian family in the city—a replay of the 2008 exodus in which thousands fled the city.
In one day, 67 corpses were brought to Baghdad morgue all shot with silencer guns. The gunmen drive in mainly four-wheel vehicles and quickly disappear from the crime scene.
At least 17 people were killed and 32 wounded when multiple suicide bombers attacked a hotel popular with foreigners and the surrounding area in the center of Kabul.
Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Syria’s Bashar Assad and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah met in Damascus for an unprecedented three-way summit on unity against Israel.
