A Hunt Oil-led consortium opened a new liquefied natural gas plant on the Peruvian coast, with President Alan GarcĂa attending the ceremony. But the project has sparked a storm of protest.
In a 24-hour strike, campesinos blocked roads across Peru’s Cusco region to demand the reconstruction of irrigation infrastructure destroyed in the January floods.
Colombian army colonel Alfonso Plazas Vega was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role in the forced disappearance of 11 civilians in the 1985 army siege of the Palace of Justice.
A heavily armed commando of the Colombian National Army attacked striking workers who have been occupying BP’s Tauramena gas processing facility in Casanare department.
Colombia’s ruling-party presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos has won the first round—amid complaints about vote-buying, fraud, violence and other irregularities.
The government of Bolivia announced a preliminary study for a program of uranium exploration in PotosĂ department, and broached the possibility of uranium exports to Venezuela.
Four lion cubs freed under Bolivia’s circus-animal ban arrived in San Francisco, heading to a new life in a northern California refuge run by the Performing Animal Welfare Society.
Bolivian President Evo Morales says he will negotiate with the “Ayllus Guerreros” that have declared a “red zone” in PotosĂ department after the killing of four national police officers.
New Yorker Lori Berenson was paroled from a Peruvian prison after spending 15 years behind bars—sparking protest from hardliners in Peru’s political establishment.
An ex-Colombian police major has come forward to allege that Santiago Uribe, younger brother of President Alvaro Uribe, led a paramilitary group in the 1990s that killed suspected “subversives.”
Indigenous leaders in Ecuador announced the temporary lifting of their protest campaign against the pending national water law as lawmakers failed to reach a deal on putting off debate.
At least six were killed—three Serbians and three Bolivians—and one kidnapped in an assault perpetrated by suspected drug traffickers in Bolivia’s eastern Santa Cruz department.
