Hezbollah operative busted in Peru: police
Peru's special anti-terrorist force announced the arrest of a Hezbollah operative who was supposedly planning to carry out attacks on Jewish and Israeli targets.
Peru's special anti-terrorist force announced the arrest of a Hezbollah operative who was supposedly planning to carry out attacks on Jewish and Israeli targets.
At least 18 bodies found in three mass graves near the pueblo of Tacueyó in Colombia’s Cauca department are believed to be victims of a guerilla massacre.
When soldiers arrested a village elder at El Reposo, Colombia, in connection with a supposed cocaine lab, the troops found themselves seized by machete-wieilding peasants.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein urged Venezuela to release opposition leader Leopoldo López, held in connection with this year's protests.
Colombia's Prosecutor General Alejandro Ordoñez slammed President Juan Manuel Santos for "protecting a terrorist" by failing to arrest FARC leader "Timochenko."
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro charged that a Colombian paramilitary network was behind the assassination of legislator Robert Serra, a rising star in the ruling party.
More than 100 Colombian farmers filed suit with the UK high court against a BP subsidiary over damage to their lands from the company's Ocensa oil pipeline.
Evo Morales handily won a third term as Bolivia's president—as indigenous leaders launched protests to demand a greater role in the new decentralization policy.
Gregorio Santos, the populist president of Peru's Cajamarca region, was comfortably re-elected—despite being imprisoned as corruption charges are pending against him.
Colombia's government, campesinos, indigenous groups and Afro-Colombians launched a dialogue table to improve conditions for rural and minority communities.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Colombia to reconsider Senate Bill 85, which would expand the jurisdiction of military tribunals to include civilians.
Despite peace talks with the FARC, armed conflict and displacement persist as threats to Colombia's indigenous peoples, according to the country's indigenous organization.