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.
Colombian authorities deny reports of a mass grave found in Meta department on the eastern plains, charging the allegation is a strategy to derail the Andean nation’s trade pact with the EU.
A researcher cites the confession of a School of the Americas graduate that the remains of martyred Bolivian socialist leader Marcelo Quiroga are buried at the armed forces high command headquarters.
Over 80 indigenous Yukpa people are maintaining a permanent vigil at the Venezuelan supreme court to demand the right to try three men accused of violence related to land conflicts under indigenous law.
5,000 indigenous campesinos marched in downtown Bogotá to protest the pact giving US forces access to Colombian military bases. The march came amid Colombia’s official bicentennial celebrations.
Colombia is demanding the OAS address Bogotá’s accusation that FARC guerrillas are operating out of Venezuelan territory. Venezuela dismissed the charges as a “pathetic media spectacle.”
The Venezuelan government handed over three accused Colombian drug traffickers to the DEA, boasting the “undeniable results” of President Hugo Chávez’s war on drugs.
Former FARC guerilla hostage Ingrid Betancourt has asked for compensation from the Colombian government, alleging that her 2002 kidnapping resulted from state negligence.
