A parliamentary Mega-Commission investigating corruption under ex-president Ălan GarcĂa has shocked Peru with its findings that hundreds of narco-traffickers were pardoned.
Peasants protested in Peru's coca-producing Apurímac-Ene River Valley after army troops fired on a public transport microbus, injuring nine. A state of emergency permits impunity.
Negotiators from Colombia's government and the FARC rebels signed an agreement on agrarian reform, calling for redistribution of illegally held or underused lands.
World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg will be in Peru on assignment for the next weeks. The Daily Report will be updated as time and logistics allow, with on-the-scene reports.
El Salvador pledged an invesitgation after Venezuela's new president Nicolas Maduro charged a US-backed assassination plot against him involving Salvdoran rightists.
A legal tool US advocates have used against human rights abusers for three decades is now "close to a dead letter" thanks to a Supreme Court decision.
Colombia's ex-VP Francisco Santos is accused of fabricating FARC attacks in a stratagem to undermine peace talks overseen by his cousin and rival President Manuel Santos.
The Inter-American Commission for Human Rights formally removed Colombia from its human rights “black list”âas deadly terror continues against campesino leaders.
Colombia announced the arrest of Cesar Demar Vernaza AKA “El Empresario”âaccused crime boss of Ecuador and top South American operative of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel.
Campesino protesters at the site of the Conga mining project in Peru’s Cajamarca region stormed police lines, putting pipes and other equipment to the torch.
Venezuelan presidential candidate NicolĂĄs Maduro laid the legendary “Curse of Macarapana” on his political opponents, invoking indigenous resistance to the conquistadors.
Colombian peasants held a mass meeting to press for agrarian reform as talks with the FARC continue in Havanaâbut fighting and repression continue around the country.
