Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez dismissed charges that he is moving towards dictatorship with his special powers to rule by decree, accusing OAS head José Miguel Insulza of serving the “empire.”
Spanish prosecutors charge that an ETA operative in the Venezuelan government arranged for the Basque separatist group to provide computer training for Colombian FARC guerillas.
Protesters in the southern Chile region of Magallanes y Antártica Chilena have erected road blockades, halting traffic in response to a government hike in fuel prices.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has agreed to hear the land rights case of indigenous peoples in the Raposa-Serra do Sol region of the Brazil’s Roraima state.
As oil companies with pending contracts in the Peruvian Amazon continue to deny the existence of indigenous “peoples in isolation” in remote forest areas, new video evidence has emerged.
Peru’s army has released a report contradicting the findings of the official truth commission on the 1980-2000 dirty war, absolving the armed forces of systematic atrocities.
Indigenous groups in Argentina are lobbying for Julio Argentino Roca, the army general who conquered Patagonia, to be recognized as a political criminal who exterminated indigenous peoples.
Chilean police evicted indigenous Rapa Nui protesters who had occupied the central plaza and a luxury hotel in Hanga Roa, capital of Easter Island, over the new year.
A 2009 US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks reports that Peru’s new military head Paul da Silva was involved in narco-corruption, a charge that the general adamantly denies.
Bolivia‘s state energy company YPFB last month awarded Argentina‘s Astra Evangelista SA a $160 million contract to build a natural gas processing plant at in Rio Grande in the eastern province of Santa Cruz. The plant, due to come online… Read moreBolivia seeks Southern Cone energy integration —despite corruption scandals
Nigerian authorities are holding 12 foreign oil executives in a $100 million bribery case—but last month settled with Halliburton, dropping charges against Dick Cheney.
Three bombings near mosques in central and northern Baghdad on Nov. 13 killed two people—hours after US Vice President Joe Biden arrived for meetings with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki
