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Monday, December 22, 2008 - 00:00
Colombia's FARC guerrillas are offering to free an ex-governor, a former lawmaker and four other hostages to help jump-start talks on a prisoner swap
Monday, December 22, 2008 - 00:00
FMLN candidate Mauricio Funes is widely considered a moderate leftist. But other party honchos -- including vice-presidential candidate Salvador Sanchez Ceren -- are of the more traditional (i.e., militant) FMLN variety
Monday, December 22, 2008 - 00:00
Twenty years after the killing of Chico Mendes, one of the world's most prominent rainforest defenders, hundreds of human rights and environmental activists still face the threat of assassination in Brazil
Monday, December 22, 2008 - 00:00
About 90% of the parents are keeping their children home from this school because of recent kidnapping threats
Monday, December 22, 2008 - 00:00
The decapitated bodies of 12 men were discovered early Sunday scattered in and around a state capital in southern Mexico
Monday, December 22, 2008 - 00:00
LEFTIST Colombian guerrillas said they would unilaterally release two politicians, three police officers and a member of the military they are holding hostage
Monday, December 22, 2008 - 00:00
Police in Mexico have found nine decapitated bodies close to a highway in the southern state of Guerrero
Monday, December 22, 2008 - 00:00
According to human rights organisations working in the north-west Choco province, and in dense forests along the Pacific, paramilitary gangs are seizing Afro-Colombian land to facilitate biofuel conglomerates
Monday, December 22, 2008 - 00:00
Colombia's FARC rebels said they would soon free six hostages from jungle camps in their first hostage gesture since high-profile captive Ingrid Betancourt and three Americans were rescued
Monday, December 22, 2008 - 00:00
'Jose' y 'Alipio' recibian 320.000 dolares semanales del narcotrafico. Los terroristas intentaron derribar tres helicopteros artillados del Ejercito