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Colombia: mass graves exhumed in Cauca
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.
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Colombia: peasants detain soldiers after arrests
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.
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Venezuela urged to release opposition leader
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.
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Colombia: Santos under fire over peace process
Colombia's Prosecutor General Alejandro Ordoñez slammed President Juan Manuel Santos for "protecting a terrorist" by failing to arrest FARC leader "Timochenko."
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Venezuela accuses Colombian paras in death of pol
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.
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Colombians sue BP over environmental damage
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.
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Bolivia: Evo wins —amid indigenous protests
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.
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Peru: populist governor re-elected from prison
Gregorio Santos, the populist president of Peru's Cajamarca region, was comfortably re-elected—despite being imprisoned as corruption charges are pending against him.
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Colombia: dialogue table for peasants, minorities
Colombia's government, campesinos, indigenous groups and Afro-Colombians launched a dialogue table to improve conditions for rural and minority communities.
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Colombia: UN report blasts military justice bill
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.
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Colombia’s indigenous communities at risk: report
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.
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Peru: massacre victims exhumed in Ayacucho
Investigators exhumed 21 bodies at a remote hamlet in Peru's Andes—believed to be those of peasants massacred on suspicion of being guerilla collaborators in 1984.