Israeli soldiers shut down a protest in Hebron, declaring a “Closed Military Zone,” as Hillary Clinton denied Israeli claims of a secret deal with Israel allowing settlement expansion.
Baja California announced that Colombian National Police specialists will provide anti-kidnapping training to state law enforcement officials.
Peruvian national police forces staged a violent raid on a group of indigenous people at a peaceful blockade on a road in remote Amazonas region, leaving at least 25 dead and many more injured.
Human rights groups denounced the cultivation of biofuel crops in Colombia, charging their production is linked to land theft and atrocities by paramilitary groups.
Former Colombian Senator Teodolindo Avendaño was sentenced to eight years house arrest for not voting on the measure that allowed the 2006 re-election of President Alvaro Uribe in exchange for favors.
Colombian paramilitary operative Diego Alberto Ruíz was sentenced in Houston, TX, for trying to acquire anti-aircraft missiles and other powerful weapons for $25 million worth of cocaine.
A judge in Chile has charged an ex-soldier in the 1973 murder of folk singer Víctor Jara. Up to now, the only man prosecuted in the case was the commander at the prison camp where Jara was shot.
Some 100 residents of seven rural communities in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco blocked access to the Madrefil-1 oil well to demand compensation for damage to their lands.
Indigenous protesters seized two valves on the pipeline that moves natural gas from Peru’s Camisea field in the Amazon to the Pacific coast, and pledge to resist army troops that have been sent in.
The General Confederation of Peruvian Workers (CGTP) held a one-day nationwide strike in support of indigenous people protesting in the Amazon region against corporate exploitation of their lands.
A manhunt has been launched after dozens of prisoners escaped from Bagua Grande prison in Peru‘s Amazonas region and fled into the jungle in a daring jailbreak.
Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama dismissed calls from Amnesty International to publish the official death toll during the finals weeks of the armed conflict that ended last month.
