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Guatemalan Army "Kaibiles" complete a training course. (Source: government of Guatemala.)
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Distrito Federal
- Journalist and women's rights activist Lydia Cacho has reported receiving death threats for her work in exposing sex trafficking, child pornography and prostitution. Cacho has previously been the victim of torture and police abuse for revealing the names of public officials and well-known businessmen involved in illicit ...
The steps up to the conference room were plastered with faces. Faces of the missing fathers, brothers, sisters, husbands, mothers and wives. They looked out at us, some faded, torn photographs, others as real as if they could be ready to pick up their child, eat dinner with their family, head off to work, today. Gathered in this hotel conference room in Bogotá were the women and men who had lost a part of themselves when their loved one was taken away in "the perfect crime": forced disappearance. We had been asked by the ...
Adam goes over the Colombia and Panama free-trade agreements currently stalled in Congress, UN and U.S. findings about cocaine production, and increasing uncertainty in Venezuela about Hugo Chávez's health.
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Ecuadorian authorities yesterday arrested Andrés Guaje Chalá, alias "Danilo," who according to press reports is the chief of the 48th Front of Colombia's FARC guerrillas. "Danilo" was captured in central Quito.
The 48th Front is one of the FARC's most active and wealthiest. It operates in the department of Putumayo, along the border with Ecuador, where it controls a major route for the transshipment of...