The police-besieged offices of the divided Aymara indigenous organization CONAMAQ in La Paz were turned over to leaders of the faction aligned with Bolivia's ruling party.
Residents in high Andean communities of northern Colombian broke off talks with the government aimed at securing consent for mining in the sensitive Páramo de Santurbán.
With three dead in accidents, the Dakar Rally Raid cross-country motor-race is being blocked by campesinos in Argentina, with comrades in Bolivia and Chile at the ready.
Just as he has launched a new political party, photos emerge showing Colombia's ex-president Alvaro Uribe with figures linked to the "para-politics" scandal.
Colombia's ELN guerillas blew up four crude-oil holding pools along the Caño Limon pipeline, sparking a large blaze and causing the local population to flee.
The US-funded glyphosate spraying in Colombia has been indefinitely suspended after presumed FARC guerillas shot down two fumigation planes—killing a US pilot.
Following a shake-up in the military high command, the Peruvian blogosphere is abuzz with rumors of an imminent coup d'etat against President Ollanta Humala.
Arizona-based Southern Copper is set to restart work at its controversial $1 billion Tía María copper project in Arequipa—despite ongoing protests and hunger strikes.
Forty-five family members of an Afro-Colombian man who was shot in Medellin have been displaced from their homes following threats from illegal armed groups.
The Washington Post runs an in-depth report exposing CIA oversight of the Colombian government's campaign of targeted assassinations of guerilla leaders.
Campesinos across Colombia continue to press demands for return of lands usurped by paramilitaries—despite conitnued death threats and legal persecution.
Bolivia is mobilizing police to the route of the upcoming Dakar Rally Raid cross-country motor-race following a pledge by Aymara protesters to blockade it with their bodies.
