Hugo Chávez threatened to kick Coca-Cola out of the country if the company does not settle a pay dispute with striking workers, calling on Venezuelans to switch to guava juice.
Since early December, hundreds of private contractors of multinational banana corporation Banacol have illegally invaded and occupied the lands of Afro-Colombian “peace communities.”
The North Cauca Association of Indigenous Councils in southeast Colombia’s Cauca department has implemented its own re-immersion program for demobilized guerillas.
A Peruvian appeals court rejected the government’s petition to overturn a lower court’s decision to grant parole to Lori Berenson, a US citizen held since 1995 for collaboration with guerillas.
Coca growers gathered in cities across Bolivia to hold peaceful demonstrations in support of their government’s proposed amendment to the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.
The Pentagon is moving ahead with plans to expand military bases in Colombia—despite a ruling by the country’s Constitutional Court striking down the base agreement with Washington.
Peasants blocked roads to protest mining plans in Peru’s central Andean region of Ancash, as presidential candidate Alejandro Toledo pledged a tougher hand on the mineral sector.
Colombian authorities brought charges against a Maj. Juan Carlos Del RÃo Crespo and four other troops in the slaying of a campesino family in another “false positives” case.
Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez dismissed charges that he is moving towards dictatorship with his special powers to rule by decree, accusing OAS head José Miguel Insulza of serving the “empire.”
Spanish prosecutors charge that an ETA operative in the Venezuelan government arranged for the Basque separatist group to provide computer training for Colombian FARC guerillas.
Peru’s army has released a report contradicting the findings of the official truth commission on the 1980-2000 dirty war, absolving the armed forces of systematic atrocities.
A 2009 US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks reports that Peru’s new military head Paul da Silva was involved in narco-corruption, a charge that the general adamantly denies.
