The Los Angeles Times
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 00:00
Gov. Jose Reyes Baeza Terrazas says gunmen who fired on his convoy weren't aiming at him
Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 00:00
Having gotten 602 killings off his chest, paramilitary leader Edgar Ignacio Fierro has moved on to dollars and cents: how he and other leaders looted municipal treasuries, hospitals and even schools
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 00:00
Now that the Venezuelan president is no longer checked by term limits, he has solidified his role as an autocrat -- and a force that the U.S. must engage
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 00:00
In polarized Venezuela, Teodoro Petkoff may be the closest thing to a centrist commentator. He expects support for Chavez to continue deteriorating
Friday, February 13, 2009 - 00:00
The U.N. and the European Commission send police officers from the impoverished region, now a major transit hub for cocaine, to Colombia for training.
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
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 00:00
The U.S military is helping the armies of Caribbean, Latin and South American countries develop noncommissioned officer corps
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
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 00:00
The time for gestures is long past. If the FARC's aim is political credibility, it needs to demonstrate a complete rejection of lawless behavior and release the hundreds of other captives it still holds
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