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Peru claims new blow against Sendero Luminoso, assails Bolivia
Peru announced the capture of a top Sendero commander—and called upon neighboring Bolivia to stop stigmatizing it as a source of "narco-terrorism."
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Bolivia: Aymara dissidents block highway
Followers of Bolivian Aymara organization CONAMAQ blocked the highway between La Paz and Oruro after being evicted from their office in La Paz by riot police.
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Report breaks down FARC military strategy
A leaked report from a BogotĂĄ think-tank sees a shift from open warfare to attacks on oil infrastructure as the FARC rebels adjust to recent reversals.
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Peru: deadly clash as narco-flight intercepted
Agents of Peru’s National Police force intercepted a small plane loaded with 300 kilos of cocaine paste in Oxapampa province, mortally wounding the pilot, a Bolivian national.
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Bolivia: activists disrupt Human Rights Day confab
A group of Bolivian activists disrupted the official proceedings for International Human Rights Day in La Paz, accusing the government of repression against indigenous struggles.
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Colombia: kingpin named in Trujillo Massacre
Colombia's prosecutor charged notorious drug kingpin "Don Diego" with masterminding several massacres between 1988 and 1994 in which hundreds of peasants were killed.
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Protesters occupy BogotĂĄ over municipal ‘coup’
Thousands of protesters continue to occupy Plaza BolĂvar, the central square in BogotĂĄ, to oppose the removal of the Colombian capital’s populist mayor, Gustavo Petro.
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Colombia: violent eviction at CĂșcuta squatter camp
The feared Colombian National Police anti-riot force was mobilized to evict an encampment of campesinos who had been displaced from their homes by political violence.
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Colombia: threatened indigenous group leader slain
Two gunmen assassinated Juan Ălvaro Pai, traditional governor of the endangered AwĂĄ indigenous people, in an incursion into their reserve in Colombia’s Nariño department.
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Bolivia: repression against dictatorship survivors
Bolivia’s elite anti-riot force used tear-gas against survivors of the country’s military dictatorship who protested in La Paz to demand indemnification for torture they suffered.
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Colombia: Cauca campesino leader assassinated
Sergio Ălcue Perdomo, a campesino leader who brought a case to the OAS human rights body over paramilitary terror in Cauca, was killed at his home by unknown gunmen.
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Peru: ‘narco-terrorist’ busted; narco-politician exposed
Peru's National Police said they apprehended an accused Shining Path commander—as a campaign contributor to Keiko Fujimori was blacklisted by the US as a narco-trafficker.