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Colombia: protests rock Pacific coast
Following days of protests, Colombia's largest port city of Buenaventura exploded into violence as police opened fire on demonstrators, leaving one dead and many wounded.
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The Andes
Colombia: high court deals blow to peace process
The FARC rebels are on "high alert" following a ruling by Colombia's Constitutional Court striking down congressional "fast track" authority for laws related to the peace process.
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Colombia: popular power defeats mega-mining
Mining multinational AngloGold Ashanti announced it will abandon its planned mega-project at La Colosa, Colombia, following a popular vote by local residents to reject the project.
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Venezuelan oil goad in US-Russia game
Amid growing crisis in Venezuela, it emerges that the country's state oil company, heavily indebted to Russian giant Rosneft, made a big donation to Trump's inauguration festivities.
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Peru: Lima crackdown on ‘land-traffickers’
Police seized large areas of "trafficked" lands in the Lomas de Primavera green belt overlooking Lima, but accounts were vague on the fate of the peasant families settled there.
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Colombia in mourning after Niño-linked disaster
Colombia is mourning after the tragic landslide in Mocoa, capital of Putumayo region—the latest disaster to hit the Andes as a result of this year's "abnormal" El Niño.
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Venezuela: court overturns dissolving of legislature
After days of protests, Venezuela's Supreme Court of Justice reversed a prior ruling allowing the government to dissolve the opposition-controlled National Assembly.
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Will coca sabotage Colombian peace process?
Enemies of Colombia's peace process are dealt propaganda assistance by the fact that as the long civil war has wound down, coca leaf production in the country has been soaring.
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Bolivia doubles territory open to coca cultivation
President Evo Morales signed into a law a bill passed by Bolivia's congress that nearly doubles the area of national territory open to coca leaf cultivation for the legal market.
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Devastating floods expose Peru’s climate crisis
Some 70,000 are displaced and at least 70 dead as Peru's heaviest rains in two decades—linked to an "abnormal" El Niño—unleashed flash-floods and landslides across the country.
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Colombia to get environmental Truth Commission?
Campesinos and environmentalists held a national mobilization demanding that Colombia establish a Truth Commission for environmental crimes as part of the peace process.
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Colombia approves transitional justice system
Colombia's congress approved a transitional justice structure that will attempt to bring reparations to the more than 8 million victims of the decades-long conflict.