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Colombia: March 2016 deadline for peace?
Colombia's President Santos announced a March 2016 deadline for a peace accord with the FARC, as guerilla leaders called upon him to return their unilateral ceasefire.
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Peru: justice at last in sterilization abuse?
Peru's government issued a decree calling for an investigation into the forced sterilization of peasant women under now-imprisoned former president Alberto Fujimori.
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Crimes against humanity on trial in Ecuador
Ecuador's National Court of Justice is set to open the country's first trial for crimes against humanity, concerning the disappearance and torture of guerilla suspects.
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Colombia: official apology for 1985 high court raid
President Juan Manuel Santos apologized for the 1985 army raid on the guerilla-occupied Supreme Court building in which nearly 100 people were killed.
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Amnesty presses Colombia on indigenous rights
Amnesty International finds that Colombia's peace deal is unlikely to succeed without restitution of usurped lands—even where they have been opened to mining.
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Ecuador: victory for Kichwa sovereignty
Ecuadoran border authorities allowed an indigenous leader to enter the country on a passport issued by the Kichwa Nation, hailed as an "historic precedent" for the hemisphere.
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Venezuela: protest crackdown on rights activists
Amnesty International called on Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro to halt an "escalating campaign of attacks and harassment against human rights activists."
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Colombia: U’wa Nation land rights case advances
The U'wa Nation claimed a victory as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights agreed to hear its land rights case against the Colombian government.
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Peru: privatization of archaeological sites seen
Public sector workers in Cuzco held a rally in the historic city to protest plans by Peru's government to allow private administration of cultural and archaeological sites.
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Peru: four dead in clash over Chinese mine project
At least four are dead following clashes between police and residents in Peru's Apurímac region, amid protests over the Chinese-owned Las Bambas copper mine project.
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Ecuador: gov retreats on closure of press watchdog
Ecuador's government dropped moves to shut the country's press watchdog after revelations that public funds were used to purge the Internet of critical material.
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Peru: new violence over La Oroya metal complex
Campesinos on a cross-country march to demand a clean-up of Peru's massively polluted Oroya metal-smelting complex were attacked by the National Police.