Peru's Energy and Mines Minister Eleodoro Mayorga said the government is considering dropping the requirement for environmental impact studies of oil exploration projects.
Informal miners have for days been blocking the Pan-American Highway on Peru's coast to protest the end of the "formalization" process for titling their claims.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced that three air force generals were arrested and brought before a military tribunal for plotting a coup.
A Human Rights Watch investigation in Colombia's Pacific port of Buenaventura finds a city in the grip of paramilitary terror, with more than 13,000 displaced last year.
Leaders of the peasant protest encampment at the planned Conga mine project in Peru report a new attack by the National Police detachment assigned to protect the site.
A worker was wounded when presumed Sendero Luminoso guerillas fired on a camp of the Camisea pipeline consortium in the rainforest of Peru's Cuzco region.
Cannabis took a greater share of total drug crops eradicated in Peru in 2013, and authorities hope to expand eradication this year—bringing the program beyond the remote coca zones.
Are the Venezuelan protesters monolithically "fascists" and "golpistas"? And are left-dissident elements in danger of being exploited in a reactionary putsch?
Transcripts of conversations between the highest leaders of the FARC guerillas were revealed by the Colombian media after being intercepted by the Armed Forces.
Days after The Hague issued a ruling on their maritime border dispute, Peru and Chile are bitterly at odds over a patch of desert on their land boundary.
Colombia's National Police announced the seizure of 1.2 tons of cocaine allegedly belonging to paramilitary group Los Urabeños.
An engineer for the Águila Dorada mining company was detained by members of an Awajún indigenous community in Peru's northern Cajamarca region.
