Colombia’s new President Juan Santos met with Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez in a move to restore relations. The meeting took place at Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino, where Simón Bolívar died in 1830.
A judge in Medellín acquitted ten soldiers, including a colonel and major, of participation in the massacre of eight civilians at the “peace community” of San José de Apartadó in February 2005.
A court in the Venezuelan state of Anzoátegui state has handed down prison sentences to 15 police agents for the January 2009 shooting deaths of two unionists at a Mitsubishi Motors Corp plant.
The southern Bolivian city of Potosí has been paralyzed by strikes and protests for over a week, with roads blocked, businesses closed and the airport under occupation.
Bolivia’s government announced it has started a program of military training for civilians at army barracks in the east of the country—a stronghold of the right-wing opposition.
Community activist and hip-hop artist Marcelo Pimienta Sánchez AKA “MC Chelo,” 23, was shot dead by unknown assailants near his home in the conflicted Comuna 13 district of Medellín.
Nine US human rights activists are holding a vigil at the Tolemaida military base near Bogotá with a 12-foot banner that reads “U.S. MILITARY OUT OF COLOMBIA.”
The president of the Union of Mining Industry Workers (SINTRAMINEROS) in Colombia’s Antioquia department is under death threat, while an Antioquia campesino leader was seized by the army.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issued a statement strongly condemning the murder of Wayuu indigenous leader Luis Alfredo Socarras Pimienta in Colombia's Guajira region.
Peru will cancel the license of the US company Doe Run for a smelter complex at La Oroya, Junín region in the central Andes, said to be one of the most polluted locales on the planet.
A new report by the interfaith peace group Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) details how US funding to the Colombian military supports army units whose members have killed hundreds of civilians.
Regional states of emergency have been declared across much of Peru in response to extreme weather and a devastating toxic spill that sparked campesino protests in Puno region.
