Former Colombian Senator Teodolindo Avendaño was sentenced to eight years house arrest for not voting on the measure that allowed the 2006 re-election of President Alvaro Uribe in exchange for favors.
Colombian paramilitary operative Diego Alberto Ruíz was sentenced in Houston, TX, for trying to acquire anti-aircraft missiles and other powerful weapons for $25 million worth of cocaine.
A judge in Chile has charged an ex-soldier in the 1973 murder of folk singer Víctor Jara. Up to now, the only man prosecuted in the case was the commander at the prison camp where Jara was shot.
Some 100 residents of seven rural communities in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco blocked access to the Madrefil-1 oil well to demand compensation for damage to their lands.
Indigenous protesters seized two valves on the pipeline that moves natural gas from Peru’s Camisea field in the Amazon to the Pacific coast, and pledge to resist army troops that have been sent in.
The General Confederation of Peruvian Workers (CGTP) held a one-day nationwide strike in support of indigenous people protesting in the Amazon region against corporate exploitation of their lands.
A manhunt has been launched after dozens of prisoners escaped from Bagua Grande prison in Peru‘s Amazonas region and fled into the jungle in a daring jailbreak.
Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama dismissed calls from Amnesty International to publish the official death toll during the finals weeks of the armed conflict that ended last month.
The legislative committee of the Israeli cabinet rejected a bill that would make a loyalty oath to a “Jewish, Zionist and democratic” Israel a prerequisite to the issuance of a national ID card.
“What we are not doing—what I have no interest in doing—is running GM,” President Obama assured upon announcing the government’s large ownership stake in the reorganized General Motors.
The US Supreme Court issued an order allowing the government more time to appeal a ruling that mandates release of photos allegedly depicting detainee abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Canadian Guantánamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr asked to have his US military lawyers dismissed for arguing and disagreeing among themselves.
