Through their civilian wing, Mexico’s Zapatista rebels issued a denial of fraudulent statements claiming credit in their name for the kidnapping of politician Diego Fernández de Cevallos.
Guatemala has declared a state of emergency along the jungle border with Mexico in response to threats from Los Zetas. The narco gang responded by declaring “war” on the Guatemalan state.
Colombian authorities brought charges against a Maj. Juan Carlos Del Río Crespo and four other troops in the slaying of a campesino family in another “false positives” case.
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.
