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Colombia peace talks complicated by lack of cease-fire, drug-trafficking rebels
Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 00:00
It will be the fourth such effort in three decades.
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos says talks with rebels will start next month
Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 00:00
According to the most optimistic assessment offered by senior government officials, a peace agreement would be reached by April.
Brazil prosecutors say judge to hold first trial for alleged junta crimes despite amnesty law
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 - 00:00
Prosecutors argue the kidnappings and the hiding of bodies so the victims were never found are "permanent crimes." Since such crimes continue to the present, they fall outside the 1961-79 period covered by the amnesty law.
US welcomes Guatemalan court decision allowing extradition of former President Portillo
Friday, August 31, 2012 - 00:00
U.S. officials are praising Guatemala's decision to allow the extradition of former president Alfonso Portillo, who faces U.S. charges of laundering allegedly embezzled foreign donations.
2 killed as Peruvian police clash with coca growers trying to block eradication operation
Thursday, August 30, 2012 - 00:00
Two civilians in Peru have died of apparent gunshot wounds in a clash between police and coca growers trying to halt coca crop eradication in the Upper Huallaga valley region.
U.S. workers shot in Mexico may be CIA employees
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - 00:00
Former officials said the CIA has been frustrated by delays that can last months before Mexican authorities mount operations based on U.S.-provided intelligence and acknowledged that lingering mistrust makes the agency reluctant to share its most sensitiv
Colombia exploring peace talks with FARC
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - 00:00
President Juan Manuel Santos's brief announcement in a nationally televised address prompted cautious optimism.
Brazil's Supreme Court orders resumption of work on mammoth dam in Amazon rainforest
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 - 00:00
In an earlier statement, the company said that the dam will not "directly affect any Indian territory" and that "the indigenous communities living in the region have been consulted".
Lawmakers want to start building Arizona’s US-Mexico border fence despite lack of cash
Monday, August 27, 2012 - 00:00
The committee has raised just 10 percent of the $2.8 million needed to complete a mile of fencing. The ultimate goal is to build 200 miles of border fencing
A generation later, Colombian author rescues murdered father from 'oblivion'
Monday, August 27, 2012 - 00:00
It is a memoir about a jovial father who was also a formidable intellectual, humanitarian doctor and political radical whose outspokenness about the injustices in this country triggered a murderous rage among reactionary forces.

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