Camilo - Instablogs
Dec 17 2009
Two of Colombia’s biggest rebel groups have announced they intend to unite with each other against the country’s US-backed security forces. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) and the National Liberation Army (ELN) said they...
Dec 15 2009
Conservative billionaire Sebastian Pinera led Chile’s presidential vote and is seen the favorite to win a run-off and lead a political shift in Latin America’s most stable economy after 20 years of leftist rule. Pinera, an airline magnate...
Dec 12 2009
Authorities predict that Colombia’s current drought will be particularly severe due to the “El Niño” effect, while water rationing has already begun in several regions. According to a report released Friday by the Institute of...
Nov 24 2009
Sandra doesn’t go outside after dark anymore. She lives in one of this city’s most notorious areas, where rival gangs have turned streets into war zones. “It was like fireworks: pop, pop, pop everywhere,” Sandra, who asked that her last name...
Oct 2 2009
Several hundred Shuar Indians wearing black war paint and toting wooden spears on Thursday reinforced a highway blockade that police failed to break up earlier in a bloody melee that left one Indian dead and at least 40 police injured. Police pulled...