Presumed guerillas of the Shining Path seized a work camp of the Camisea Consortium in La Convención province, Cuzco region, holding captive the 30 workers there. Most were released, but seven remain hostage of the guerillas.
Since NAFTA took effect in 1994, Mexico’s struggle with obesity and its related life-threatening problems—diabetes, stroke, heart disease—has become “Americanized,” a new study reports.
A federal judge has ordered ex-president Carlos Saúl Menem to stand trial on charges that he impeded the first probe into a July 1994 bombing of the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA) building.
A sergeant in Chile’s notorious carabineros militarized police force was shot and killed in an ambush after a raid on an indigenous Mapuche village the southern region of Araucanía.
Construction companies controlled by an influential Dominican politician have paid more than $2.5 million to Haitian president Michel Martelly since 2010, according to a Dominican television report.
In a YouTube statement, Colombia’s FARC guerillas responded to reports that they have been weakened, and asserted that the rebels’ “struggle for a socialist Colombia” is legitimized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Ecologists say “marine bubble” technology used in offshore oil explorations is behind the mysterious dolphin die-off on the Peruvian coast. An estimated 3,000 dolphins have washed up on the coast so far this year.
Hundreds of National Police and army troops have been mobilized to Peru’s northern Andean region of Cajamarca ahead of an announced resumption of the civil strike there in opposition to the Conga gold mining project.
Chile’s supreme court ruled that the proposed mega-scale HidroAysen hydroelectric project in Patagonia does not violate the constitutional rights of residents opposing the project. Opponents pledge to continue to resist the project.
José Antonio Acosta Hernández AKA “El Diego,” purported leader of La Linea criminal organization, was sentenced to 10 life terms in El Paso after pleading guilty to the slayings of three people tied to the US consulate in Ciudad Juárez.
The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), the Tuareg rebel army which has seized control of Mali’s north, declared the independence of the region—and repudiated “Islamic groupsicles” attempting to exploit the struggle.
The Kurdish opposition bloc walked out of the Syrian National Council at a meeting in Istanbul, accusing host country Turkey of "pressuring the SNC" to omit the demands of the Kurdish members in the final document outlining a transition plan.
