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.
Colombia’s presidential election is developing into an unexpectedly tight race between hardline ex-defense minister Juan Manuel Santos and reformist Green Party candidate Antanas Mockus.
Indigenous communities in Colombia’s Cauca department issued a statement calling upon all armed fighters to leave their territory, following clashes that left many civilians dead.
Anti-labor violence is again reaching a peak in Colombia, with four education workers assassinated in the northern coastal department of Córdoba since January.
Through a satellite link from a US prison, former Colombian paramilitary chief Salvatore Mancuso told his country’s Supreme Court that his illegal forces supported Álvaro Uribe’s election in 2002.
Two Colombian soldiers, Sgt. Pablo Emilio Moncayo and Pvt. Josué Daniel Calvo, returned to their hometowns following their release by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Sendero Luminoso, thought to be confined to a small pocket of high jungle known as the Apurimac-Ene River Valley, launched an attack on a coca-eradication team in the Upper Huallaga Valley.
In a case sensationalized by the Bolivian press as a crackdown on a “Norwegian Cartel,” two Norwegians were sentenced on charges of attempting to smuggle 22 kilos of cocaine out of the country.
The five ex-military chiefs who made up the Bolivian High Command in 2003 were cited for the apparent destruction of Armed Forces documents related to “Black October” violence of that year.
Otto Reich was among those who gathered at the Rayburn House Office Building to complain about the “deteriorating democratic system” in Bolivia under leftist President Evo Morales.
Strikes and protests against the Bolivian government’s wage hike offers this week marked a break by organized labor with the leftist government of President Evo Morales.
