Lima, Oct. 11 - Spain’s government condemned today the attack perpetrated by the narco-terrorism in the Peruvian province of Tayacaja, Huancavelica, that killed 13 soldiers and two civilians. The Spain’s Foreign Affairs and Cooperation ministry stated in a communiqué its rejection to the attack and “its deeply felt condolences to the families of the deceased victims”. In addition, the Spanish ministry expressed grief “to the entire Peruvian...

MIAMI - There is real danger that Islamic extremist groups such as al-Qaida and Hezbollah could form alliances with wealthy and powerful Latin American drug lords to launch new terrorist attacks, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Extremist group operatives have already been identified in several Latin American countries, mostly involved in fundraising and finding logistical support. But Charles Allen, chief of intelligence analysis at the Homeland Security Department, said they could use...

Washington - A long-standing Colombian terrorist group known as the FARC no longer is a threat to democracy in that country, but it remains capable of carrying out violent acts against the Colombian people, Latin America analysts tell America.gov. Stephen Donehoo, managing director of McLarty Associates, a Washington consulting group, says the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) is finding it “more and more difficult” to “operate, finance itself, and to recruit new...

UNITED NATIONS - Argentine President Cristina Fernández asked Iran on Tuesday to hand over several citizens suspected of planning the deadly 1994 bombing of an Argentine Jewish center, so they can face a local trial. "I would ask the Islamic Republic of Iran in accordance with international law... accept that Argentine justice can put on trial... those citizens who have been accused," Fernández told the U.N. General Assembly in New York. Argentina has asked for...

Chavez has invited Shia "missionaries" from Iran to convert the Guajiros and other indigenous people of the Amazon. The entire Wayuu tribe has converted to Islam, the women cover themselves in veils and the men practice using Kalashnikovs.

MEXICO CITY - Suspected drug traffickers detonated hand grenades in a square packed with Independence Day celebrators in President Felipe Calderon's hometown of Morelia, killing eight and injuring 100 in what officials said Tuesday was an act of terrorism. One of the grenades exploded about 200 yards from where Gov. Leonel Godoy was ringing a bell as part of the "cry of independence" around 11 p.m. Monday as hundreds in the capital of Michoacan state blew horns and waved flags in...

International terrorism experts fear that Venezuela will soon become a base for terrorist attack initiatives, in light of the tightening of ties between the South American dictatorship and both Iran and Hizbullah. A top expert in the war against terrorism, speaking with the Los Angeles Times, said that agents of Hizbullah and the Revolutionary Guard of Iran have formed a special force designed to kidnap Jewish businessmen in South America and smuggle them to Lebanon. He said that Venezuelan...

WASHINGTON, April 30 (UPI) -- A top official from the U.S. Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs says that narco-terrorism is spreading into North America. David Johnson, assistant secretary for the INL, says that the illicit drug trade is directly linked to known terrorist groups in the Western Hemisphere and that these groups are employing terrorist tactics to traffic drugs into North America. Johnson spoke before the Attorneys General of the Americas, who were...

In a Friday sermon that aired on Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV on April 11, 2008, Yunis Al-Astal, Hamas MP and cleric, told worshipers that Rome, "the capital of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital," would soon be conquered by Islam, just as Constantinople was. It then, he said, would become "an advanced post for the Islamic conquests, which will spread through Europe in its entirety, and then will turn to the two Americas, and even Eastern Europe." The following are...

CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez dared the U.S. on Friday to put Venezuela on a list of countries accused of supporting terrorism, calling it one more attempt by Washington to undermine him for political reasons. Chavez said the "threat to include us on the terrorist list" is Washington's response to his own successes in the region. U.S. lawmakers -- including Reps. Connie Mack and Ileana Ros- Lehtinen, both Florida Republicans -- have called for the State Department to...