Latin America

Oil operations between 1964 and 1992 caused environmental damages.

Santos announced that Colombia’s largest illegal armed group will be demobilizing “in the coming days.” 

A spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services denied the agency was involved in threatening Ecuador.

The State Department of the United States ordered on Friday the evacuation of all non-essential staff from its embassy.

The former president has dismissed the accusations and the arrest order as a plot against him by the government of his former ally and handpicked successor President Lenín Moreno.

Initial reports pointed responsibility towards a new group that called itself Popular Commando of Social Cleansing which had put out a menacing pamphlet some days before. Newer reports point towards the ELN rebels.

Toledo’s defense argued that the speed with which the request was processed showed there was a political persecution against him

In the eyes of my aunts, my dad had not selected the proper mate.

During the massive election day, violence and reports of corruption marred the mood.

One of the plot’s coordinators who escaped arrest said that Colombian and U.S. officials allegedly knew about the plot but didn’t provide active support.

The latest examples should worry us all.

The bill will now have to go back to the lower chamber this week to conciliate the changes made before it can be sanctioned by President Juan Manuel Santos.

Critics say he may be seeking the immunity from prosecution that a full seat in the Senate grants but an honorary seat doesn’t.

The purpose of the strike was to protest Macri’s decision to turn to the International Monetary Fund for loans in exchange for austerity policies.

In contrast, during the last election season of 2011-2012, only one candidate and a total of nine politicians were killed.

Here you go.

The House of Representatives is expected to vote on two different bills that seek to formally end the family separation policy.

And it’s not about NARCOS.

Civil rights organization Nicaraguan Association for Human Rights also denounced an undetermined number of people were taken by the police in “selective raids.”

The 41-year-old Iván Duque, who has never before held elected office, begins his four-year term in August.

Correa has not been charged but has been ordered to present himself in front of the tribunal every two weeks even though he lives in Belgium.