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US denies role in Colombian raid on Ecuador
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.
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Peru: peasants march for justice after slaying of mine opponents
Peasant leaders marched on the offices of the judicial authorities in Piura in northwest Peru to demand justice in the police slaying of two opponents of a disputed copper mining project.
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Colombia investigates Chiquita officials
Colombian officials are continuing to investigate three Chiquita Brands officials suspected of involvement in the payment of paramilitary death squads in the name of the banana company.
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Bolivia: Evo Morales headed for election sweep
Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, appears to have won a second five-year term in general elections with 61-63.2% of the vote.
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Indigenous and labor rights in Venezuela: do our readers care?
Our November issue featured the stories “Venezuelan Labor Between Chávez and the Golpistas” by Venezuelan journalist Rafael Uzcategui writing for the Spanish anarchist journal Tierra y Libertad, and “Venezuela: Demarcation Without Land” by José Quintero Weir writing for the Caracas… Read moreIndigenous and labor rights in Venezuela: do our readers care?
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Tensions with Venezuela escalate as Bogotá boycotts Quito summit
Tensions between Colombia and Venezuela have deepened after Colombian ministers failed to attend a Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) meeting in Quito intended to defuse the crisis.
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Venezuela: anti-impunity activist assassinated
Mijail Martinez, an activist with the Victims’ Committee Against Impunity in Venezuela’s Lara state (CVCI-Lara), was assassinated in a drive-by shooting at his home.
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Afro-Peruvians receive official apology —but no reparations
Peru officially apologized to its citizens of African descent for centuries of “abuse, exclusion and discrimination.” But the apology does not refer to slavery or state plans for reparations.
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Venezuela arrests one terrorist, praises another
Magaly Janeth Moreno Vega AKA “La Perla,” wanted by Interpol as a leader of the Colombian paramilitaries, was arrested by Venezuelan authorities—as Hugo Chávez hailed Carlos the Jackal.
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Aymara leader Walter Aduviri was elected governor of Peru's Puno region—just two days after the country's Supreme Court declared void a seven-year prison term against him for "disturbing public order" during a 2011 protest wave in which he was the principal leader. Aduviri had carried out his campaign from hiding, and only emerged from clandestinity with announcement of the high court ruling. He will now face a new trial on the charges related to the so-called "Aymarazo"—an Aymara uprising against an unpopular mineral development project, which was ultimately suspended. His Mi Casita Movement for Regional Integration and Development won 48% of the vote in the race, ahead of the other candidates. It also took several municipal races in Puno region. (Photo: Diario Uno)
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Peruvian police peddle “pishtaco” paranoia
The Pishtaco, a bogeyman from Peruvian folklore, stepped into the light of day with arrest of a gang in Huánuco that reportedly kills victims to sell their fat on an international black market.
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Tensions rise as Venezuela blows up footbridges on Colombian border
The governments of Colombia and Venezuela traded angry words again following the bombing of two footbridges connecting the two countries by Venezuelan guardsmen.