Bolivia’s Justice Ministry announced that the remains of a presumed “disappeared” follower of Che Guevara’s guerilla movement were exhumed in the General Cemetary of La Paz.
The government of Evo Morales charges that elite Masonic lodges helped organize and finance the “terrorist” conspiracy to launch a secessionist movement in Santa Cruz department.
One was killed as police evicted squatters in Santa Cruz, while campesinos ransacked the intallations of a Sumitomo-owned mining company in Potosi to protest water pollution.
Indigenous journalist Mauricio Moreno Medina, founding member of a community radio station for the Pijao people, was murdered by unknown assailants at his home in Tolima department.
Colombia’s Sen. Piedad CĂłrdoba is overseeing the release of two soldiers held by the FARC guerillas, even as authorities claimed a blow against the FARC’s financial networks.
Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe announced that pending a decision on the penalty for possession, police will for now only be permitted to confiscate drugs rather than make an arrest.
At least six people were killed and 20 others injured when a car bomb exploded outside the mayor’s office in the Colombian Pacific port city of Buenaventura.
Clodomiro Castilla, publisher of El Pulso del Tiempo newspaperâknown for his exposĂ©s of corruption and paramilitary terrorâwas shot dead in an attack on his home in MonterĂa, Colombia.
The retired general who captured legendary guerilla leader Che Guevara in 1967 was summoned by Bolivian authorities for questioning in an alleged plot against President Evo Morales.
Colombian guerilla leader “Ivan Vargas” was sentenced to 20 years years in prison by a District Court in New York for conspiring to import tons of cocaine into the United States.
Jhonny Hurtado, president of the local Human Rights Committee in the community of La Catalina in Colombia’s Meta department, was killed while working in outlying fields.
The Conservatives tabled the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement in Ottawa’s Parliament last week, reviving a deal opposed by labor and human rights activists.
