Chris Kraul
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 00:00
Colombia's largest indigenous association and Narino Gov. Antonio Navarro Wolff said 18 members of the community, including several children, were bound and led from their settlement Feb. 4 and that at least eight were later found dead
Sunday, February 8, 2009 - 00:00
Military officials say the 20 percent increase in desertions last year from the 2007 level is equally compelling evidence of their increasing battlefield dominance over the FARC
Friday, February 6, 2009 - 00:00
Officials launch an investigation into the deaths of 10 people linked to the trial of ex-Gov. Salvador Arana who is alleged to have ordered the death of El Roble Mayor Eudaldo Diaz in 2003
Monday, February 2, 2009 - 00:00
Those freed were policemen Alexis Torres Zapata, Juan Fernando Galicia and Jose Walter Lozano; and soldier William Giovanni Rodriguez
Monday, February 2, 2009 - 00:00
Some experts fear that the number of lynchings will rise now that Indian communities are allowed to run their own legal systems under the new constitution
Friday, January 30, 2009 - 00:00
The last of the U.S. drug agents leaves on President Evo Morales' orders. The U.S. and Bolivia are in a bitter dispute over the South American country's anti-drug efforts
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 00:00
Indigenous communities in northwestern Zulia state complain that Colombian rebels are encroaching on their towns, taking their land and supplies and eroding their culture
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 00:00
In Venezuela, a referendum is expected next month on a measure that would allow President Hugo Chavez and others to run for reelection an unlimited number of times
Monday, January 12, 2009 - 00:00
Rebels, drug traffickers and soldiers may battle around them and encroach on their lands, but tribes hold on to their peaceful ways
Friday, January 9, 2009 - 00:00
We are winning, but we haven't won yet. This could backfire very rapidly. [The end of Plan Colombia] is what the rebels want