BUENOS AIRES -- Two Buenos Aires synagogues received bomb threats in the wake of violent anti-Semitic attacks at a public street celebration. Monday's bomb threats on the Amaijai and New Israeli Community synagogues, both located in the highly Jewish-populated neighborhood of Belgrano, proved to be false. Also Monday, hundreds of protesters, mostly women and children, clamored for the release of the five men arrested Sunday during a cultural event organized by the Buenos Aires city...

“Don’t be surprised if the government takes action against a few media which continue to practice terrorism”, said Chavez during a press conference in Buenos Aires where he arrived for a brief visit in support of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner administration. His warnings follow instructions to his officials to begin legal actions against the “terrorist” media of Venezuela. Chavez was referring to the recent controversy involving the Deputy...

A US advocacy group and a Venezuelan exile said Tuesday they have filed suit seeking five billion dollars in damages from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and state oil companies for alleged human rights abuses. The suit, which was first filed in April by Washington-based Freedom Watch and exiled Venezuelan journalist Ricardo Guaripa, accuses Chavez of alleged acts in support of terrorism, torture and human rights violations. Freedom Watch president Larry Klayman said he increased the amount...

The Bolivian government asserted on Monday that the investigations about existence of violent groups have confirmed the implementation of plans to assassinate President Evo Morales and divide the country. Pictures: Efe Source:

La Paz - The special commission of the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies begins today the questioning of alleged members of a terrorist group arrested in Santa Cruz last April 16. Cesar Navarro, of the governing Movement to Socialism (MAS), heads the work group. He said deputies traveled to the San Pedro penitentiary in La Paz to start the process. The pólice detained Juan Carlos Gueder Bruno and Alcides Mendoza Malavi, as well as members of the Union Juvenil Crucenista, opposition shock...

Police from seven countries arrested 17 people in the island of Curacao Tuesday suspected of involvement in an international drug ring with links to Hizbullah, Dutch authorities said. The group is suspected of having traded in some 2,000 kilograms of cocaine per year, the Dutch prosecution service said in a statement. "The group shipped containers with cocaine from Curacao to the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Jordan," it said. "From Venezuela, containers with drugs went to...

The PSNI has arrested a 32-year-old man wanted on terrorism charges in Spain. The man was detained this morning on foot of a European Arrest Warrant and is expected to appear in court later today. Another Spaniard, former ETA leader Inaki de Juana Chaos, is currently fighting extradition from Northern Ireland to Spain on charges of inciting support for terrorism. Source:

Bolivian President Evo Morales waves at the end of a press conference at the Quemado presidential palace in La Paz on April 21, 2009. Morales said that Ireland, Croatia and Hungary have no authority to request an international investigation into the shooting of three and the arrest of two other foreigners natives of their countries. On April 16, a police raid in Santa Cruz broke up an alleged assassination plot against Morales, his Vice President Alvaro Garcia and Santa Cruz's opposition...

A class action lawsuit has been filed against Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez by Larry Klayman, founder of the government watchdog group Freedom Watch, seeking damages for "assault, supporting terrorism, crimes against humanity, violations of civil and human rights, torture" and other crimes. Chavez, however, was amused when he heard about the claims, according to was Fox News. "Lawsuit filed in the United States against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and all his...

Hezbollah is using the same southern narcotics routes that Mexican drug kingpins do to smuggle drugs and people into the United States, reaping money to finance its operations and threatening U.S. national security, current and former U.S. law enforcement, defense and counterterrorism officials say. The Iran-backed Lebanese group has long been involved in narcotics and human trafficking in South America's tri-border region of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. Increasingly, however, it is...