The Observer (UK)
Monday, February 8, 2010 - 00:00
This brutality defines a war very much of its time, the first 21st-century war, because it is, in the end, about nothing
Friday, September 11, 2009 - 00:00
Critics hit out at the eco-friendly cosmetics firm after a supplier cleared Colombian ranch land to grow palm oil– and riot police were brought in to enforce the removal of farmers
Sunday, September 6, 2009 - 00:00
A wave of decriminalisation is sweeping through Latin America
Sunday, September 6, 2009 - 00:00
It is time to admit the obvious. The "war on drugs" has failed, at least in the way it has been waged so far
Sunday, September 6, 2009 - 00:00
In June 1971, US President Richard Nixon declared a "war on drugs". Drugs won
Sunday, August 24, 2008 - 00:00
Colombia's Marxist guerrillas lost their most treasured hostage. But morale in the jungle was already low, with hunger, executions and forced abortions among Farc's female troops
Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 00:00
Ingrid Betancourt, who was rescued from Farc rebels last week, never thought she would see her children again
Sunday, May 18, 2008 - 00:00
A drugs baron from Liverpool built up a £200m fortune through his links with the Colombian cartels. But when he tried to cheat the South American traffickers, he was brutally assassinated by a contract killer
Sunday, March 23, 2008 - 00:00
Tourism officials and politicians now fear Antofagasta will lose its claim to fame and, worse still, be presented as belonging to poverty-stricken Bolivia, which for years has been Chile's bitter rivals across the Andes
Monday, February 4, 2008 - 00:00
In a special investigation, John Carlin in Venezuela reports on the remarkable collusion between Colombia's rebels and its neighbour's armed forces