Bolivia’s President Evo Morales demanded Peru suspend the refuge status it has granted three Bolivian ex-cabinet ministers who face “genocide” charges in their home country.
Peru’s Defense Minister Rafael Rey, speaking in spport of US plans for military bases in Colombia, lamented that “we cannot count on North American aid” to fight narco-terrorists.
A Peruvian air force helicopter crashed after being hit with rifle fire from Sendero Luminoso insurgents, killing the pilot and co-pilot and gavely wounding a solider.
A hip-hop artist who works with youth cultural programs in the violence-torn Medellín district of Comuna 13 was killed by gunmen on a motorbike.
The US ambassador to Colombia says the US has accepted invitation to attend the next UNASUR sumit to put its case for military bases in the Andean nation.
Gunmen massacred 16 at a drug rehab center in Ciudad Juárez, while the state sub-secretary for Citizen Protection was killed in a drive-by attack in Michoacán.
Christian Poveda, a French film-maker who wrote a documentary about the Mara 18 gang in El Salvador, was found shot dead at Tonacatepeque, near the country’s capital.
UN Humanitarian Coordinator Maxwell Gaylard said Israel’s two-year-old blockade of the Gaza Strip is causing “a severe and protracted denial of human dignity.”
A new report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime warns of growing links between drug lords and the Taliban insurgency.
Like their counterparts in Pakistan, Afghanistan’s Taliban demonstrate once again that they aren’t above blowing up their cannon fodder at mosques—during Ramadan—to enforce their supposedly purist version of Islam. Now didn’t we hear somewhere, “Do not fight them at the Holy… Read moreTaliban don’t read Koran, do they?
Leaders of the resistance against the coup in Honduras are debating whether to boycott the November elections if constitutional order is not restored by then.
Honduran business elites are divided on whether to keep backing the coup regime as fears grow that the country’s participation in CAFTA will be suspended.
