Paraguay is moving towards a “state of exception” in response to the emergence of the rebel Army of the Paraguayan People (EPP), with speculation of ties to Colombia’s FARC.
In a case sensationalized by the Bolivian press as a crackdown on a “Norwegian Cartel,” two Norwegians were sentenced on charges of attempting to smuggle 22 kilos of cocaine out of the country.
The five ex-military chiefs who made up the Bolivian High Command in 2003 were cited for the apparent destruction of Armed Forces documents related to “Black October” violence of that year.
Otto Reich was among those who gathered at the Rayburn House Office Building to complain about the “deteriorating democratic system” in Bolivia under leftist President Evo Morales.
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales arrived at the UN to present the conclusions of the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of the Mother Earth (CMPCC).
Strikes and protests against the Bolivian government’s wage hike offers this week marked a break by organized labor with the leftist government of President Evo Morales.
On a tour of Colombia and Peru, Defense Secretary Robert Gates voiced support for the US-Colombia FTA and hailed Bogotá as a human rights example for the region that Lima should emulate.
Talks are underway in Lima between small-scale miners and Peru’s Ministry of Mines following deadly repression of a protest campaign by miners to demand land and prospecting rights.
A second rancher was sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, the US-born nun who was gunned down in retaliation for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest.
Spanish-Argentine oil giant Repsol-YPF has applied to Peru’s government to cut 454 kilometers of seismic lines and construct 152 heliports in its search for oil on uncontacted tribes’ land.
A group of indigenous Kichwa men from the community of Sarayaku in the Ecuadoran Amazon were attacked with dynamite and firearms by invaders illegally encroaching on indigenous lands.
Ecuadoran police fired tear gas at indigenous protesters gathered outside the National Assembly building in Quito to oppose a water resources bill that they say favors mining companies and agribusiness.
