The president of Colombia's Ecopetrol, Javier Genaro Gutiérrez, announced that the state oil company will start processing licenses for the use of fracking technology.
A record-breaking cocaine bust on Peru's Pacific coast points not only to booming production, but the increasing role of the Mexican cartels in the Andean narco economy.
Peru's President Ollanta Humala will be honored by the free-trade-boosting Americas Society on Thursday night. New York activists will be there to protest.
Activists charge that a regional director of Peru's Water Authority was sacked for refusing to approve "relocation" of a mountain lake in preparation for the Conga mega-mine.
The mayor of a jungle pueblo was among three killed in clashes during a general strike related to the Camisea gas pipeline in Peru's Convención Valley.
Supporters and opponents of Ecuador's President Rafael Correa took to the streets of Quito by the thousands—at one point clashing with each other, resulting in injuries and arrests.
Two leaders of the Embera Dobida people in Colombia's Chocó region were assassinated after protesting incursions onto their lands by guerillas and paramilitaries alike.
A blast at a Jewish cemetery in Bolivia follows attacks on a synagogue. Jewish commentary on the attacks emphasizes Evo Morales' protests of the Gaza bombardment.
International labor groups are calling for letters to a Spanish security firm after the leader of its employees' union in Peru was assaulted on his way to work.
The notorious "Popeye," personal hitman for late kingpin Pablo Escobar, was freed from prison—but is is receiving official protection from the Colombian government.
Colombia's top brass held their first meeting with FARC leaders at peace talks in Havana—as Panamanian authorities claimed interception of a massive FARC cocaine shipment.
The slaying of a teacher and community leader at an indigenous village marks the sixth murder of a teacher in Colombia this year, according to the education workers' union.
