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There is no way of overestimating the challenge that the emergence of ALBA and the overall reawakening of Latin America pose to the role that the U.S. arrogates to itself as lord of the entire Western Hemisphere. The almost...
The view from our veranda is one of the most beautiful I have ever seen. It's a vision of earthly paradise as painted by the Flemish masters. There are 20ft trees that would be no taller than a much-loved potted plant in the...
Latin American Herald TribuneNov 19--A leader of the Paez Indian people was slain by unknown assailants in the southwestern Colombian province of Cauca, an organization of indigenous groups said. Nilzon Ceferino Campo, a former...
CALOTO, Colombia, Nov 18 (IPS) - Putting on a white t-shirt or wearing olive-green pants can be life-or-death decisions in the conflict zone in the steep Andes mountains in western Colombia where 14-year-old Andrés lives and...
BOGOTA, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Colombia extradited 45-year-old drug trafficker Jorge Ivan Urdinola Perea, alias "La Iguana," to the United States on Tuesday. Urdinola Perea, wanted by a court in Florida, was transferred from a...
Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Informe_completo (pdf* format - 62.6 Kbytes) PRIORIDADES CLAVES - 93 familias afrodescendientes (465 personas aproximadamente) se han desplazado...
The big news in Colombia these days revolves around a pair of hips. When it comes to feminine pulchritude, human passion and good old-fashioned politics – all enlivened by a generous dollop of scandal – the yearly competition...
BOGOTÁ, Nov 13 (IPS) - The number of cases of torture attributed to the armed forces in Colombia increased 80 percent from 2003 to 2008, in a context of near total impunity for such crimes. However, the number of documented...
Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Full_Report (pdf* format - 168.6 Kbytes) Displacements, mobility restrictions and at risk communities Events were reported in Nariño, Córdoba,...
Abdul Malik al-Houthi, a commander of the Shia rebels fighting the government in Yemen, has called on Saudi Arabia to end attacks against his group, rejecting accusations of Iranian help and links to a foreign political agenda....
