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Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 00:00
Surgeons aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) performed a series of procedures to remove bullet fragments and shrapnel from the face of a Colombian man here.
Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 00:00
U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Douglas Fraser is scheduled to assume duties as commander, U.S. Southern Command from Navy Adm. James Stavridis during a formal change-of-command ceremony at the command’s headquarters June 25.
Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 00:00
Protesters are fighting laws that would open their rainforest home to energy and agribusiness development
Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 00:00
The legislature in Nuevo Leon state, where Monterrey is located, unanimously approved a bill banning city and state police from carrying personal cell phones while on duty in an effort to prevent corrupt officers from communicating with drug gangs
Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 00:00
Critics warn that the cultivation of palm trees to produce biodiesel is a threat to Colombia's indigenous groups and other minorities, including Afro-Colombians
Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 00:00
Bogus job offers are one of the enticements used to lure people, particularly young women, into the sex trade. But human trafficking claims other victims too: men and women of all ages who are sold and forced to work
Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 00:00
Seventy-six trade unionists worldwide were killed in 2008 - with 49 killed in Colombia, the "most dangerous place on earth for trade unionists"
Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 00:00
The International Trade Union Confederation said 76 people were killed, mostly in Latin America: 49 in Colombia, nine in Guatemala, four in Venezuela, three in Honduras and one in Panama
Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 00:00
Colombia has long been the world leader in murders of trade unionists - a dubious distinction that it seems in no danger of losing
Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 00:00
Canada and Colombia signed a free trade agreement in November 2008, but ratification has been delayed by opposition parties critical of Colombia's human rights violations, notably against unionized workers