Colombia’s mineral code was struck down by the supreme court, citing insufficient protection for indigenous rights. But ecologists fear new environmental protection provisions could be left out of the new bill.
Colombia passed a Victims and Land Restitution Law to compensate victims of the armed conflict. Yet paramilitary terror continues to claim lives across the country as peasants mobilize to reclaim usurped lands.
Ecuador and Bolivia have joined Peru in a regional bloc to regain lands and waters lost to Chile in the 1879-83 War of the Pacific. A case against Chile is pending at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Hugo Chávez is playing it cool over a report by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies accusing him of collaboration with the FARC guerillas—but Venezuela’s UK embassy dismissed it as a “dodgy dossier.”
WikiLeaks cables reveal embarrassing details of an Israeli military contractor's secret operations in Latin America—sparking a government "hate campaign" against journalists who reported the shenanigans in Panama.
The Bolivian Sentate’s Commission on Natural Resources and Environment announced introduction of a Law of Mother Earth, which would officially enshrine the “rights of nature” in the Andean nation’s legal code.
At least one is reported dead in Peru’s southern region of Puno after the National Police fired on protesters during a civil strike or paro called to demand a halt to local mining and petroleum leases.
Recently declassified internal documents show that Chiquita had a much closer relation with leftist rebels and rightwing paramilitaries than Chiquita has admitted in the past.
As many as 1.5 million unionists, students and teachers demonstrated in various cities to protest a free trade agreement (FTA) with the US and proposed changes in the education system.
Barack Obama and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos agreed to a deal on the Andean country’s labor conditions, clearing the way for the pending Free Trade Agreement.
The San José de Apartadó peace community in the Colombian region of Uraba has received an ultimatum from local paramilitary groups to leave the area or face extermination.
Ecuador’s government declared US ambassador Heather Hodges “persona non grata” and expelled her from the country in response to a cable released by the Wikileaks whistle-blower web site.
