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Bomb blast rocks Colombian port

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.

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Colombian journalist assassinated after exposing paras

Clodomiro Castilla, publisher of El Pulso del Tiempo newspaper—known for his exposés of corruption and paramilitary terror—was shot dead in an attack on his home in Montería, Colombia.

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Bolivia: prison party over for GarcĂ­a Meza

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.

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Peru: old crimes catch up with ex-officers

JesĂşs 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.

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Bolivia unseals files from military dictatorship

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.

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Venezuela: Chávez calls for Internet controls

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez called for Internet controls and demanded that authorities crack down on an independent news website he accused of spreading false information.

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Venezuela buys Chinese jets for drug war

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.

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Colombia: transport strike paralyzes Bogotá

Bogotá’s Small Transport Providers Association (APETRANS) pulled some 16,400 buses and collective taxis out of service to protest plans for modernizing the city’s transit system.