The International Criminal Court will analyze information regarding the Colombian army murdering civilians and disguising them as guerillas killed in combat to artificially inflate their enemy kill count.
At least 16 people were killed and dozens injured in armed clashes that erupted as police evicted landless campesinos who had invaded a privately-owned “forest reserve” in eastern Paraguay’s fertile Canindeyu region.
Paraguay’s Indigenous Affairs Department is investigating after ranchers attempted to forge the signature of Ayoreo indigenous leaders after to failing to win their consent for a new road through their already threatened territory.
Even as the imprisoned mayor of Cuzco’s Espinar province was released and entered into a dialogue with the government over the Xstrata mining project, new violence is reported from Cajamarca over the proposed Conga mega-mine.
Telma Yolanda Oqueli, leader of protest blockades at EXMINGUA gold mine near Guatemala City, was shot in the chest and gravely wounded by gunmen on a motorbike. Local residents demand their right to be consulted on the mine.
Federal agents raided New Mexico’s Ruidoso Downs racetrack in a crackdown on Zeta cartel stateside money-laundering operations. Meanwhile, narco-arson attacks hit five Mexico warehouses of US-owned junk food giant Sabritas.
New French president François Hollande warns that Mali’s breakaway north is harboring “terrorists.” He spoke in a meeting with Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou—who says he will seek UN approval for military action.
“Anti-war” voices are cynically seeking to exculpate Bashar Assad in the Houla massacre. At best, they express far greater outrage at supposed Western arming of the Syrian rebels than at Assad’s slaughter of his own people.
Indigenous leaders loyal to Evo Morales voted to remove Adolfo Chávez as president of the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of the Bolivian Oriente (CIDOB)—as CIDOB’s march in protest of a jungle highway advances on La Paz.
The Transportation Commission of Peru’s Congress approved a new road through remote jungle thought to protect isolated indigenous peoples. Madre de Dios indigenous leaders protested that they were not consulted.
At a summit in Bolivia, a special target for Evo Morales and other leaders on the left was the OAS rights organization, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights—despite its record of criticizing the US and its Latin American allies.
Mexico’s largest TV network was paid in 2005 to have its news and entertainment programs influence voters’ perceptions of various politicians, according to documents given to The Guardian—generally favoring the PRI and PAN.
