Colombia’s deal with the Chinese Foton Motor Group to build an assembly plant in the Andean nation follows a recent pact with Beijing for $1 million in military assistance and training.
The guerilla who in 2008 killed “Ivan Rios,” one the FARC’s top commanders, was sentenced to 31 years for kidnapping and rebellion. The ex-guerilla complained he was betrayed by the authorities.
Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe was subpoenaed to testify in a civil case against Alabama coal giant Drummond over the company’s alleged ties to paramilitary death squads.
Bolivian President Evo Morales, on an official visit to Iran, said that the Islamic Republic and Bolivia pursue a common objective in fighting against imperialism and injustice in the world.
Spanish Jesuit missionary JosĂ© MarĂa Korta, 81, began a hunger strike outside the National Assembly in Caracas to demand liberty for three Yukpa indigenous leaders he says have been framed for murder.
After almost 20 years, a former Colombian army officer was sentenced to 44 years in prison for his role in the deaths of over 245 civilians in the Trujillo Massacres between 1986 and 1994.
Unknown assailants on a motorcycle assassinated Colombian indigenous leader Rodolfo Maya Aricape as he left a community meeting in the hamlet of LĂłpez Adentro, in violence-torn Cauca department.
Bolivian newspapers engaged in a protest against a proposed anti-racism law they claim would hurt freedom of expression, all running the headline “There is no democracy without freedom of expression.”
Seven Peruvian SOA graduates were convicted of aggravated murder, kidnapping, forced disappearance, and conspiracy for their roles in two massacres and the murder of a radio journalist.
Col. Manuel E. Rivadeneira Tello, a School of the Americas graduate, has been charged for last week’s unsuccessful coup attempt in Ecuador. Two other police leaders are under investigation.
On the heels of electoral reversals for his ruling party, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez announced new land expropriations to benefit the peasants, and called for creation of a popular militia force.
The Colombian inspector general removed Senator Piedad CĂłrdoba from her position and barred her from public office for 18 years because of what he said were her links to the rebel FARC.
