Colombia’s state oil company Ecopetrol is to enter territory inhabited by some of the world’s last uncontacted indigenous peoples in the Peruvian rainforest under an agreement reached this week.
In a move aimed at appeasing US Congressional opposition to the free trade agreement, Bogotá has ordered palm oil companies to return thousands of acres to displaced Afro-Colombian peasants.
Calling it a measure to “reunify the motherland,” Hugo Chávez dispatched army troops to seize Venezuela’s air and sea ports—a move decried by the opposition as a power grab.
Italy’s ruling right-wing parties—the Forza Italia and National Alliance, a direct descendant of Mussolini’s Fascist party—announced they will merge into a new “People of Freedom” bloc.
Some 130 were arrested at NATO’s headquarters in Brussels and Nieuw Milligen air base in the Netherlands in protests prompted by the upcoming 60th anniversary of the alliance’s founding.
In the first major Tibetan protests since last year’s uprising, hundreds of residents in Ragya, Qinghai province, attacked a police station, leading to the arrest of nearly 100 monks.
The US Justice Department filed lawsuits against Union Pacific Railroad Co. March 18 seeking $37 million in damages for allegedly failing to prevent its rail cars from being used to smuggle drugs into the country. US customs inspectors on at… Read moreNarco-imbroglio mires NAFTA trade
In a boost for President Felipe Calderón’s military strategy against Mexico’s warring narco gangs, soldiers arrested two top cartel leaders—including one accused of attacking a US consulate.
The DEA announced the arrest of two alleged narco-brokers for the 10th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on charges of conspiring to import cocaine into the US.
Colombia's Supreme Court approved a request by the attorney general to reopen the investigation of former army general Rito Alejo del Rio, suspected of collaboration with illegal paramilitaries.
In a landmark ruling, Brazil’s Supreme Court found that the Raposa-Serra do Sol indigenous reserve in the northern Amazon should be maintained as a contiguous territory.
A group of the world’s top war crimes investigators—backed by Amnesty International—urged the UN to launch an inquiry into alleged violations of the laws of war during the recent Gaza conflict.
