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.
Faced with declining production and economic chaos, Venezuela is again opening its oil-fields to private companies—reversing much of the progress in asserting state control of the hydrocarbons industry that was made under Hugo Chávez. Just after a series of new contracts with private firms was announced, President Nicolás Maduro flew to Beijing for a meeting with Xi Jinping. The two leaders announced further deals to open Venezuela's Orinoco Belt to Chinese companies. This comes a decade after Exxon withdrew from the Orinoco Belt, unable to come to terms with the Chávez government. (Photo via OilPrice.com)
The UN High Commissioner of Human Rights issued a report finding that opponents of Bolivian President Evo Morales were responsible for some of the country’s worst rights violations last year.
In a program called “unprecedented” in Latin America, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has begun registering some 50,000 Colombians who have fled their country for Ecuador.
Rights organizations say more than 300 families have been displaced by the Peruvian army’s Plan “Excelencia 777,” launched to take Vizcatán zone from narco-trafficking and “terrorist” groups.
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.
