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Venezuela arrests generals accused in coup plot
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced that three air force generals were arrested and brought before a military tribunal for plotting a coup.
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HRW documents mass displacement in Colombia
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.
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Peru: new repression at Conga mine site
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.
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Peru: Sendero harass pipeline project
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.
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Peru escalates cannabis crackdown
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.
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‘Fascism’ and the Venezuela protests
Are the Venezuelan protesters monolithically "fascists" and "golpistas"? And are left-dissident elements in danger of being exploited in a reactionary putsch?
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Colombia: FARC transcripts leaked by military
Transcripts of conversations between the highest leaders of the FARC guerillas were revealed by the Colombian media after being intercepted by the Armed Forces.
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Chile-Peru border dispute: back on
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.
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Colombia: cops seize ton of para cocaine
Colombia's National Police announced the seizure of 1.2 tons of cocaine allegedly belonging to paramilitary group Los Urabeños.
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Peru: mine engineer held by indigenous protesters
An engineer for the Águila Dorada mining company was detained by members of an Awajún indigenous community in Peru's northern Cajamarca region.
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Colombia: military, CIA spying on peace talks
Colombia’s Defense Ministry opened an investigation into claims of eavesdropping on delegations to ongoing peace talks between the government and FARC rebels.
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Peru: US court action over Cajamarca repression
EarthRights International filed an action in US federal court on behalf of a protestor left paralyzed by police violence at the site of the Conga mine project in Peru.