Fri Nov 25, 2011 3:45 PM EST
A $4.8 billion gold and copper mining project, Peru's biggest such investment, was declared suspended Tuesday after increasingly violent protests by highlands peasants who fear for their water supply.
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Tue Nov 8, 2011 12:25 PM EST
The rickety buses careen down Lima's dusty avenues, steel hulks rattling. White-knuckled passengers hold fast. Tailpipes cough soot. Drivers grimace. Pedestrians scramble.
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Sun Oct 2, 2011 1:43 PM EDT
A new study challenges claims from the administration of President Barack Obama that Colombia is making important strides in bringing to justice killers of labor activists and so deserves U.S. congressional approval of a long-stalled free trade pact.
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Thu Sep 15, 2011 3:16 AM EDT
Elementary school students serenade Susana Baca in this former sugar cane-milling town where both she and Peru's slave trade are rooted.
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Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:59 PM EDT
On paper at least, growing rice in Bolivia's fertile eastern lowlands seemed like a terrific investment. The land was a bargain, the labor dirt cheap.
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Sat Aug 13, 2011 1:02 PM EDT
The cornerstone of President Juan Manuel Santos' year-old government is a bold plan to compensate an estimated 4 million victims of Colombia's long-running civil conflict.
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Mon Aug 8, 2011 5:00 AM EDT
Juan Manuel Santos is burdened by thorny challenges aplenty as he marks a year in office: sophisticated drug traffickers, criminal gangs marauding in the provinces, hit-and-run attacks by Latin America's last rebel army.
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Sun Jun 12, 2011 12:00 AM EDT
A gold rush that accelerated with the onset of the 2008 global recession is compounding the woes of the Amazon basin, laying waste to Peruvian rain forest and spilling tons of toxic mercury into the air and water.
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Mon Jun 6, 2011 7:52 PM EDT
In his first, failed run to be Peru's president, Ollanta Humala projected the image of a radical leftist in Hugo Chavez's mold. This time, he called the Venezuelan leader's socialist-oriented economic model flawed, and sought moderate allies and courted Washington.
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Fri Jun 3, 2011 1:36 PM EDT
A leftist former army officer with questioned human rights credentials narrowly won Peru's presidency in a bitterly fought runoff with the daughter of disgraced ex-President Alberto Fujimori.
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Wed Jun 1, 2011 8:08 PM EDT
Novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has angrily pulled his biweekly column from Peru's dominant newspaper on the eve of the presidential runoff election, calling El Comercio "a propaganda machine" for conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori.
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Sun May 22, 2011 1:00 PM EDT
Forget bulk cash. Heavy and hard to hide, it's simply not the most convenient cross-border conveyance for a 21st-century money launderer.
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Tue May 10, 2011 5:31 PM EDT
Campaign officials for Ecuador's then-presidential candidate Rafael Correa sought financial backing from Latin America's last remaining leftist rebel army in 2006, and there is evidence Correa was aware of such solicitations, according to a report released Tuesday.
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Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:03 PM EST
Colombia asked Israel on Thursday to extradite former Israeli army Lt. Col. Yair Klein, who was convicted by a Colombian court and sentenced in absentia to nearly 11 years in prison for training drug lords' assassins in the late 1980s.
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Tue Jan 18, 2011 3:31 PM EST
The United States will file a formal objection Wednesday to Bolivia's proposal to end the ban on coca leaf-chewing specified by a half-century-old U.N. treaty, according to a senior U.S. government official.
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Mon Jan 10, 2011 4:49 PM EST
The assassination attempt on a U.S. congresswoman seems tragically familiar to people in countries where political violence has been routine, and many expressed concern Monday that America's increasingly polarized politics will lead to more bloodshed.
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Thu Dec 9, 2010 6:18 PM EST
OPEC ministers decided Saturday to keep oil output at current levels, citing ample inventories amid persisting global economic uncertainty and a price of just under $90 a barrel.
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Sat Nov 13, 2010 1:48 PM EST
In this nation whose murder rate more than triples that of Mexico, judges and prosecutors are underpaid, underprotected and under attack by organized crime. Guatemala teeters on the edge of failed-state status.
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Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:07 PM EDT
Chile has done a remarkable job of preparing to rescue 33 miners trapped a half-mile underground, but many risks remain simply because never before has anyone tried to rescue miners from such depths, a U.S. mine safety expert said Tuesday.
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Mon Oct 11, 2010 6:10 PM EDT
Carlos Bugueno is out of the collapsed mine but still lives in close quarters, sharing his small wood-and-tin house with 16 relatives. His family welcomed him home by lining the street with white plastic bags filled with air — they had no money for balloons.
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Thu Sep 9, 2010 6:47 PM EDT
With a blunt remark that grated on Mexicans, Washington's top diplomat was merely echoing a growing concern about the alarming violence and instability being caused by Mexico's war on drug cartels.
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Mon Sep 6, 2010 3:03 AM EDT
Edward Nino Hernandez is in many ways a typical 24-year-old Colombian male. He loves to dance reggaeton, dreams of owning a car — preferably a Mercedes— and wants to see the world.
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Sat Aug 7, 2010 2:21 PM EDT
In May, suspected urban guerrillas took three shots at gravedigger Jesus Antonio Hernandez at his corner store. In July, they tried to set fire to his house. Repeatedly, they telephone him with death threats.
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Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:15 PM EDT
The U.S. State Department has reversed its decision to deny a visa to a leading Colombian journalist whose reporting has been highly critical of the country's U.S.-allied president.
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Wed Jul 14, 2010 4:08 PM EDT
After he was captured by leftist rebels, Luis Mendieta's status in Colombia's police force suddenly became his curse. The rebels' military chief told the lieutenant colonel — his highest-ranking hostage — that he would be the last captive freed.
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