Ecuador's Secretary of Communications officially informed free-speech advocacy organization Fundamedios that it is being dissoved for promoting "indisputably political" material.
Venezuela closed the Colombian border and declared a state of emergency along the frontier, accusing Bogotá of allowing the infiltration of right-wing paramilitaries.
Protesters cut off access to the Bolivian mining city of Potosí for almost a month in a dispute with the central government over development and investment in the remote region.
UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Victoria Tauli-Corpuz expressed urgent concern over ongoing violence against protesters by security forces in Ecuador.
Colombia's FARC guerillas may be working under the table with their supposed bitter enemies in the ultra-right paramilitary groups, according to e-mails released by authorities.
One worker was killed before laid-off employees of the idled Oroya smelting complex lifted their strike as Peru's government pledged to reach a deal with the facility's creditors.
Opponents of the disputed Tia Maria mega-mine held a dissident contingent at the parade marking the 475th anniversary of the founding of Arequipa, Peru.
National Police troops used tear-gas and armored vehicles against hundreds of partially naked marchers for abortion rights who attempted to storm Peru's Congress building.
An imprisoned paramilitary commander testified that an army general taking part in peace talks with FARC rebels was involved in the killing of journalist and comedian Jaime Garzón.
An indigenous March for Life and Dignity arrived in Quito just as a general strike was launched to press Ecuador's President Rafael Correa on economic and environmental demands.
Peru's army announced that it had "rescued" 39 people—the majority indigenous Asháninka and 26 of them underage—who were held captive in Sendero Luminoso camps.
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos announced details of an operation to seize nearly 278,000 hectares said to have been illegally usurped by the FARC.
