Colombian intelligence agents arrested a Telesur reporter on charges of terrorism and rebellion on Sunday. "This type of accusation undoubtedly surprises us. We think this is an attack against freedom of the press, against the […]
Trade agreements with Colombia and Peru are unlikely to be passed any time soon as a result of the Democrats taking control of both the House and Senate. A group of Democrats recently sent a […]
The Brazilian Amazon is home to slave labor camps where workers make charcoal that helps produce pig iron used in cars, trucks and appliances—some manufactured and sold in the United States. “These are people who […]
The FBI is guilty of destroying evidence against former CIA asset and suspected terrorist Luis Posada Carriles. Posada is accused of masterminding the 1976 bombing attack that brought down a Cuban airliner, killing 73 people, […]
Guatemalan Mayans occupying land owned by a Canadian mining company clashed with police over the weekend. The police were able to temporarily evict the protestors, but only to have them return and burn down a […]
Last week Guatemalan authorities detained two of eight defendants named in an international arrest warrant issued by a Spanish judge earlier this year. The warrant was based on a criminal complaint filed by Nobel Laureate Rigoberta […]
Central American Defense Ministers meeting in Nicaragua last month expressed the need to create a regional military force in order to fight the rising tide of drugs and gangs. It is still unclear whether Washington […]
Private security companies have been hiring Latin Americans to work as mercenaries at increasing rates over the last three years, prompting an investigation by the U.N. Many of these mercenaries, from countries that include Colombia, […]
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