Some 400 prisoners revolted at Huancas prison in the northeastern Peruvian city of Chachapoyas on New Years Eve, taking several guards hostage and seizing part of the facility.
Colombian senator Piedad Córdoba asked the FARC to state whether they are responsible for the death of Caquetá governor Luis Francisco Cuéllar, as conspiracy theories abound.
Bolivia is launching incentive programs to encourage nationals living abroad to return to the country, including providing land under the new agrarian reform.
The governor of the southern Colombian department of Caquetá, Luis Francisco Cuellar Carvajal, was found murdered in a minefield a day after being reportedly abducted by the FARC.
China’s top national oil companies have signed ambitious new deals with Venezuela—as President Hugo Chávez orders power rationing on domestic industry to avoid blackouts.
The Wall Street Journal’s Mary Anastasia O’Grady repeats claims from ex-FARC commander that the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó is a “safe haven” for the guerillas.
Dole and Chiquita paid Colombian paramilitaries to perform protection services that included murdering trade unionists, demobilized para José Gregorio Mongones said in an affidavit.
In a statement released on the Internet, Colombia’s two guerilla armies, the FARC and ELN, announced they intend to unite, saying “Our only enemy is North American Imperialism.”
Colombian human rights attorney Jorge Eliécer Molano-RodrÃguez and labor leader Luis Javier Correa Suárez have both received threats in recent weeks. Solidarity groups call for urgent action.
CITGO, subsidiary of Venezuela’s state oil monopoly, reportedly attempted to buy a Bronx cookie plant to save the jobs of 136 unionized workers—but the company’s owners ignored the offer.
The DEA claims evidence of a massive drug smuggling operation out of Venezuela, linking a powerful trafficker to Colombia’s FARC guerrillas and a fugitive Venezuelan businessman.
Washington’s embassy in Ecuador denied official charges of US involvement in the Colombian army’s 2008 raid against a FARC camp in the Ecuadoran territory.
