Self-defense committees in indigenous communities of Peru’s conflicted Apurímac and Ene River Valley (VRAE) received 400 rifles from the army to fight “narco-terrorist” groups operating in the zone.
In a joint statement, local authorities and social organizations in Peru’s conflicted Apurímac and Ene River Valley (VRAE) rejected government proposals to declare the aera a “combat zone.”
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Bolivia’s President Evo Morales demanded Peru suspend the refuge status it has granted three Bolivian ex-cabinet ministers who face “genocide” charges in their home country.
Peru’s Defense Minister Rafael Rey, speaking in spport of US plans for military bases in Colombia, lamented that “we cannot count on North American aid” to fight narco-terrorists.
A Peruvian air force helicopter crashed after being hit with rifle fire from Sendero Luminoso insurgents, killing the pilot and co-pilot and gavely wounding a solider.
A hip-hop artist who works with youth cultural programs in the violence-torn Medellín district of Comuna 13 was killed by gunmen on a motorbike.
The US ambassador to Colombia says the US has accepted invitation to attend the next UNASUR sumit to put its case for military bases in the Andean nation.
Peasant cooperatives marched in the Peruvian city of Arequipa to protest government plans to sell state lands to agribusiness interests.
Several were injured when the Peruvian village of Cocachacra exploded into protest at an environmental hearing on a proposed copper mine.
Six years after the Truth Commission report on Peru’s “dirty war,” Defense Minister Rafael Rey called the findings “false and calumnious.”
Two Peruvian army troops and four presumed narco-senderistas were killed in a shoot-out in the Apurimac Valley.
