US to make case for Colombian bases before UNASUR
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.
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.
Twelve members of the threatened Awá indigenous group were killed when their community in southern Colombia was invaded by unkown gunmen.
Peru’s President Alan García accused his Bolivian counterpart of Evo Morales of an “under the table” deal with Chile over the coastline disputed by the three countries.
According to a new report, in 2008 Colombia produced 430 tons of cocaine compared to 302 in Peru. But Colombian authorities supposedly intercepted 198 tons compared to only 20 in Peru.
Prosecutors in Peru are seeking a 30-year prison term for Vladimiro Montesinos, former intelligence chief under autocratic president and convicted political criminal Alberto Fujimori.
A bill introduced in Peru’s congress to ammend the libel law would be a threat to the freedom of press, especially for small and independent outlets, say journalists and other media professionals.
Police in Peru fired tear gas to disperse protesters blocking a highway near Pisco. The protesters were denouncing government inaction on helping the southern town rebuild from a 2007 earthquake.
At the South American summit in Quito, Hugo Chávez warned that the “winds of war are beginning to blow” on the continent—a day after accusing Colombian troops of a border incursion.