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Sunday, March 23, 2008 - 00:00
The latest affront, they say, is a recommendation this month from the UN's drug enforcement watchdog, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), that Bolivia and Peru criminalize the practice of chewing coca and drinking its tea
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
Sunday, March 23, 2008 - 00:00
The Environmental Movement of Olancho (MAO being its Spanish acronym), led by Father Tamayo, a Catholic priest from the Olanchano town of Salama, has led the people of Olancho against the loggers for the past half decade
Sunday, March 23, 2008 - 00:00
Brazil's Defence Minister Nelson Jobim says the military is ready to help the city of Rio de Janeiro deal with rising numbers of dengue fever cases
Saturday, March 22, 2008 - 00:00
In a country where most people cannot remember a time of peace, Colombians are for the first time raising the possibility that a guerrilla group once thought invincible could be forced into peace negotiations or even defeated militarily
Saturday, March 22, 2008 - 00:00
In recent weeks, Peruvian police have arrested nine people the government alleges are militants bankrolled by Venezuela
Saturday, March 22, 2008 - 00:00
Whom to credit for sidelining this seemingly eternal Doctrine? Ironically, Fidel Castro, has played a lead role in making the Doctrine -- well, so last century
Saturday, March 22, 2008 - 00:00
The Mexican government said on Friday that it has provided help to the families of four Mexican students killed in a March 1 Colombian attack on a rebel camp in Ecuador and reiterated its condemnation
Saturday, March 22, 2008 - 00:00
Human rights groups in Mexico and Ecuador plan to take legal action against the Colombian government for what they call the "unjustified massacre" of four Mexican students in this month’s attack on a FARC guerrilla camp in Ecuador
Saturday, March 22, 2008 - 00:00
A high-level Ecuadorean military officer, who preferred to remain anonymous, told IPS that "a large proportion of senior officers" in Ecuador share "the conviction that the United States was an accomplice in the attack" launched Mar. 1