The Colombian government has denied the disappearances of 11 people during the 1985 Palace of Justice siege, and called for the release of a retired colonel convicted in the case.
Colombia’s largest coal miner, Cerrejon, under force majeure due to a work stoppage, was targted in a guerilla attack that left four of the company’s trucks destroyed by fire.
The feared riot squad of the Colombian National Police has been mobilized to Arauca to break up peasant blockades of roads leading to Occidental Petroleum’s oilfields.
A Colombian court ordered the army to hold a public ceremony officially apologizing for the massacre at San José de Apartadó Peace Community, eight years after it was carried out.
Ecuador’s indigenous movement reacted to the re-election of President Rafael Correa by calling upon him to end the extractive model and criminalization of protest.
The Yanacocha mining company issued a statement warning that a consulta by local villagers on the Conga project could “place in danger all the mineral industry” of Peru.
Four suyus (traditional Aymara territories) in Bolivia’s Oruro department brought suit demanding that authorities officially recognize the Aymara system of justice.
Some 2,000 Bolivians marched on the Chilean consulate to demand the liberation of three Bolivian soliders detained after crossing the border into the neighboring country.
International human rights advocates commended Colombia on the return of usurped lands to 32 families displaced by paramilitaries in northwest Córdoba department.
After tense negotiations, the Red Cross transported to safety two Colombian National Police agents taken captive by the FARC guerillas in Cauca department last month.
A contractor gets 38 years for the murder of two leaders of the union at a Drummond mine; the judge asks for an investigation of the company’s managers back in Alabama.
Colombia’s peace advocates are calling for inclusion of the ELN guerillas in the Havana dialogue with the FARC, warning of a “marginalized” front in the civil war.
