Bolivian authorities say the dismantling of a commando made up mainly of foreign mercenaries could lead to the people behind around a dozen different attacks carried out since 2006 in Santa Cruz.
Extradited and convicted paramilitary warlord “Don Berna” wants a commission of Colombian congressmen to visit him in his US prison to continue his collaboration with Colombian justice.
Two men who fought for Croatian independence in the 1990s are among five the Bolivian government says planned to kill President Evo Morales. Three were killed in a shoot-out with police.
Manuel Rosales, mayor of Venezuela’s second city Maracaibo, has dropped out of sight after President Hugo Chávez vowed on national TV to have him imprisoned.
Daniel RendĂłn Herrera AKA “Don Mario,” Colombia’s most wanted drug lord, was captured in Urabá with 30 henchmen. He is accused of involvement in 3,000 homicides over the last 18 months.
The commander of a remnant faction of Peru’s Shining Path guerilla movement pledged more attacks after their 11th deadly ambush this year. “We will fight militarily those who defend imperialism and the government, and they are the armed forces and… Read morePeru: Sendero pledges more attacks; army uses child soldiers?
The army is carrying out searches in the Valle del RĂos Apurimac y Ene (VRAE) zone of Peru’s Ayacucho region following Sendero Luminoso ambushes that left 13 soldiers dead.
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales is on hunger strike to protest efforts by opposition lawmakers to block an electoral bill that will assign more seats to poor rural areas where he has widespread support.
Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was found guilty of committing human rights abuses during his 1990-2000 rule by a special court in Lima.
The Venezuelan government is responsible for the "worst human rights crisis in its history," intentionally using lethal force against the most vulnerable in society, Amnesty International said as it published its latest research into violence and systematic abuses in the country. The report charges that the Venezuelan government is failing to protect its people amid alarming levels of insecurity in the country, instead implementing repressive and deadly measures. (Photo: WikiMedia Commons)
A former Coca-Cola plant in the Caracas suburb of Catia is to be taken over for a cooperative public housing development under an agreement between the company and local municipal government.
The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) filed a lawsuit asking that the country’s new mining law—which sparked angry protests this year—be declared unconstitutional.
