Two Colombian drug defendants were allowed to cop a plea after revelations that prosecution withheld information of ongoing DEA payments to Colombia’s National Police.
The OAS summit in Guatemala opens in the wake of a ground-breaking report dissenting from the US-led “drug war” and broaching decrim and legalization strategies.
Negotiators from Colombia's government and the FARC rebels signed an agreement on agrarian reform, calling for redistribution of illegally held or underused lands.
A legal tool US advocates have used against human rights abusers for three decades is now "close to a dead letter" thanks to a Supreme Court decision.
The Inter-American Commission for Human Rights formally removed Colombia from its human rights “black list”âas deadly terror continues against campesino leaders.
The US accused Guinea-Bissau's top military official, Gen. Antonio Indjai, of plotting a cocaine-for-weapons deal with Colombia's FARC rebels—who were actually DEA agents.
Colombia announced the arrest of Cesar Demar Vernaza AKA “El Empresario”âaccused crime boss of Ecuador and top South American operative of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel.
Colombian peasants held a mass meeting to press for agrarian reform as talks with the FARC continue in Havanaâbut fighting and repression continue around the country.
Peru’s Congress has opened a high-profile investigation into a contract with Israeli security firm Global CST, entered into by the previous government of Ălan GarcĂa.
With a strike that lasted from Feb. 24 to March 8, tens of thousands of Colombian coffee growers took to the streets across the country, ultimately claiming victory.
An AP probe refutes US claims that no police aid to Honduras goes to units under the force's overall commander Juan Carlos Bonilla AKA "El Tigre"—an accused death squad leader.
The National Indigenous Organization of Colombia warned the Inter-American Human Rights Commission that 65 the country's indigenous groups risk cultural or physical "extinction."
