Peru’s CGTP labor federation led angry protests in Lima ahead of independence day celebrations and pledged to mount a general strike to protest a reactionary new labor law.
Colombia’s President Santos intervened in a hearing of the Constitutional Court to defend the Framework for Peace, the law that brought about peace talks with the FARC rebels.
Peru's Supreme Court acquitted former intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos of charges related to the bloody 1997 raid on the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima.
Indefinite strikes brought Drummond’s coal mining operations to a halt in Colombia, putting further pressure on the country’s economy amid a growing wave of labor actions.
Colombia's ambassador in Washington, Carlos Urrutia, resigned after being implicated in the illegal transfer of lands from campesino communities to ag-biz companies, including Cargill.
In an internationall coordinated day of action, campesinos and ecologists held protests in Peru, Chile and Argentina under the banner "No to mining, yes to life."
Colombia’s FARC rebels announced that their fighters have captured a supposedly retired US Navy seaman and Afghanistan war veteran in the south of the country.
Peru’s Constitutional Tribunal issued a decision ordering the government to honor debt owed for land confiscated under the agrarian reform that began in the 1960s.
The US has been spying on telecommunications in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and 11 other Latin American countries—with a focus on oil and other economic issues.
What appeared to be a clumsy effort to catch US secret leaker Edward Snowden seems to have backfired: three Latin American countries have now offered Snowden asylum.
National Police troops in Peru’s Cajamarca region opened fire on campesinos protesting the Chadín II hydro-electric project at the highland town of Celendín, wounding nine.
Two explosions shut down Colombia’s Caño Limon oil pipeline, in the latest guerilla attack. Such blasts have spilled much crude in the rainforest region in recent years.
