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.
The governor of Bolivia’s Chonchocoro prison has been sacked after revelations that former military ruler Luis GarcĂa Meza was being housed in luxury quarters at the facility.
JesĂșs Sosa Saavedra, a former agent of Peru’s Army Intelligence Service (SIE), confessed to a series of murders in the 1988 “Operation Lucero,” linked to the Colina Group death squad.
The Bolivian Armed Forces announced the declassification of files from the years of military dictatorship. The files will be used to investigate the disappearance of opposition figures.
Venezuelan President Hugo ChĂĄvez called for Internet controls and demanded that authorities crack down on an independent news website he accused of spreading false information.
Venezuela tested six training and light attack jets bought from China for defense and anti-drug flights in a deal that dodges an embargo banning sales of US weapons parts.
