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.
Bolivia’s Defense Ministry has ordered an investigation of an incident in which a military jet fired a missile that passed within a meter of the tail of the presidential plane.
Francisco Chávez Abarca, wanted on terrorism charges in Cuba, was arrested by Venezuelan authorities and confessed to having been contracted by Luis Posada Carriles to carry out attacks.
LGBT organizations in Cochabamba, Bolivia, held their fourth annual Pride event on June 26, marching from Las Banderas plaza to Colón square.
A video of a rally in support of the Shining Path, which supposedly took place at Lima’s San Marcos University, has sparked a media frenzy—and fears of police or military intervention on campus.
Some 85% of the gross profits from trafficking cocaine from South America to the US remain with US distribution networks, according to an official of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Foreign Affairs Minister José Antonio García Belaunde dismissed findings of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime that Peru is poised to overtake Colombia as the Andes’ top coca producer.
The number of trade unionists murdered around the world increased by 30% in 2009, according to an annual survey released by the Brussels-based International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).
Venezuela’s Fedecámaras filed a complaint at a meeting of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva against the labor and business policies of President Hugo Chávez’s leftist government.
