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...

The new commander of the Colombian army, general Óscar González, assured yesterday that its commitment is to apply drastic sanctions to the military who incur crimes like forced disappearances or extrajudicial executions, denunciation that the position to the previous military commandant cost, Mario Montoya. The guerrilla of the CRAF celebrated Monday in an official notice the destitution of the 27 Colombian military. "The public knowledge of these facts is a triumph of the...