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Colombia: Embera indigenous leaders assassinated
Colombia's indigenous movement charges that the government is failing to act after a wave of deadly violence and threats against Embera leaders by paramilitaries.
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Peru: new confrontation at Conga mine site
In a new mobilization on the contested Conga mine site in Peru, hundreds of campesinos marched to the alpine lakes that would be destroyed by the project.
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Bolivia: pro-MAS faction takes CONAMAQ office
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.
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Colombia: ecologists cut off talks on alpine mining
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.
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Andean protesters resist death-marred Dakar Rally
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.
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Colombia: photos link Uribe to narcos, paras
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.
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ELN bomb Colombia oil pipeline infrastructure
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.
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Colombia: US suspends spraying after pilots downed
The US-funded glyphosate spraying in Colombia has been indefinitely suspended after presumed FARC guerillas shot down two fumigation planes—killing a US pilot.
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Peru: coup d’etat against Humala planned?
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.
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Peru: controversial copper project moves ahead
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.
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Medellín terror targets Afro-Colombian family
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.
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CIA covert action in Colombia revealed
The Washington Post runs an in-depth report exposing CIA oversight of the Colombian government's campaign of targeted assassinations of guerilla leaders.