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Sinaloa Cartel kingpin nabbed in Colombia
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.
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Peru: clash at Conga mine site
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.
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Venezuela: Maduro calls down ‘curse’ on opponents
Venezuelan presidential candidate NicolĂĄs Maduro laid the legendary “Curse of Macarapana” on his political opponents, invoking indigenous resistance to the conquistadors.
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Colombia: peace talks advance amid violence
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.
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Ecuador: protests mount over mining, oil
Protesters crashed the opening of the Expominas trade fair at the Quito Exhibition Center, where Ecuador's government sought to win new investors for the mineral and oil sectors.
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Peru: disappearing glacier sounds climate alarm
A new study published in Science finds that the critical Quelccaya Ice Cap in the Peruvian Andes has shrunk to it smallest extent since the end of the last Ice Age.
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Peru: pressure on for Fujimori pardon
Peru's President Ollanta Humala is under growing pressure from the right-wing opposition to grant a "humanitarian" pardon to imprisoned ex-dictator Alberto Fujimori.
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Peru: Lucanamarca massacre remembered
Peru's President Ollanta Humala oversaw a ceremony at Lucanamarca village, delivering a "symbolic" package of reparations for the massacre there in April 1983.
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Peru: scandal over Israeli security contractor
Peru’s Congress has opened a high-profile investigation into a contract with Israeli security firm Global CST, entered into by the previous government of Ălan GarcĂa.
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Ecuador: Quito bicyclists get a martyr
Sebastián Muñoz, founder of the bicyclists' rights group Andando en Bici Carajo in Quito, Ecuador, was struck by a car and killed while on his bicycle.
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Colombia: coffee strike claims advances
With a strike that lasted from Feb. 24 to March 8, tens of thousands of Colombian coffee growers took to the streets across the country, ultimately claiming victory.
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Peru: radio station closed in conflicted Espinar
Radio Espinar, the local transmitter in Espinar province of Peru’s Cuzco region, charges that its license was revoked as retaliation for its coverage of anti-mining protests.