FARC guerillas are accused in a massacre of 17 members of the Awá indigenous people in a jungle region in Colombia’s south. Ten more Awá were killed days later as they fled the scene of the first attack.
Colombian lawmaker Sigifredo LĂłpez and former governor Alan Jara, freed from seven years in captivity by the FARC guerillas, had harsh words for both their ex-captors and President Alvaro Uribe.
The arrest of a synagogue security official in the attack on the Jewish temple in Caracas, Venezuela, has the conspiracy set abuzz with talk of a “false flag” operation.
President Hugo Chávez condemned the attack on Caracas’ main synagogue—but warned it was being used to fan unrest ahead of a referendum next week on his bid for unlimited re-election.
Survival International reports that indigenous communities of the Sierra de Perijá in Venezuela are being threatened by Colombian rebels, who violate their land rights, demand resources and threaten leaders.
Two striking workers were shot dead during a confrontation with the authorities at the Mitsubishi auto factory in the eastern Venezuelan state of Anzoátegui.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) released three captured police agents and one soldier to a humanitarian mission in the jungles of the southern Colombian department of Caquetá.
A group of 15 gunmen took over the oldest synagogue in Caracas Friday night, ransacking the sanctuary, desecrating Torahs and spray-painting walls with anti-Semitic slogans.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon hailed the “peaceful climate” in Bolivia during the constitutional referendum—but Facebook removed a group that advocated assassination of President Evo Morales.
President Evo Morales declared an end to the “colonial state” in Bolivia as voters approved his new constitution by a 62% majority, granting unprecedented rights to indigenous peoples.
At an economic summit in Cartagena with his regional rival, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez denied supporting the FARC guerillas or any other “subversive” activity.
Julio César Ardila Torres, the former mayor of the Colombian oil port of Barrancabermeja, has been found guilty of ordering the 2003 murder of local journalist José Emeterio Rivas by paramilitaries.
