Mexico's government said Sunday it "categorically condemns" email spying, after a German news magazine reported that documents from National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden say the U.S. gained access to the e-mail system of former Mexican President Felipe Calderon. A report posted by Der Spiegel said the documents describe an operation dubbed "Flat liquid" that claim to have accessed Mexico's "presidencia" domain, which was also purportedly used by members...

Salvadoran police say they have found a cache of more than 200 anti-tank grenades hidden in a rural carpenter's workshop, the BBC reported. Authorities believe the weapons may be connected with the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas, which has been working to expand operations to El Salvador and other Central American countries. Police reportedly become suspicious in early August after residents of El Congo, a village 30 miles north of San Salvador, reported seeing a group of heavily armed men...

Colombian authorities blamed the rebel Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) for an attack with explosives on Wednesday against a Colombia-Venezuela gas pipeline, official sources reported. The attack took place near the Maicao municipality, in La Guajira department (northeast Colombia), a few kilometers away from the Venezuelan border, hitting a gas pipeline transporting gas from that area to Zulia state, west Venezuela, DPA reported. Cira Ortiz, leader of a Wayúu indigenous...

Protests were reported on Thursday morning at Venezuela-Colombia border, particularly across the international bridges connecting Venezuela's south-western Táchira state with Colombia. Apparently, Colombian smugglers, also know as "maleteros," gathered to protest against the controls the Venezuelan National Guard has been implementing in the border to avoid food and commodity smuggling into Colombia. The smugglers burned two vehicles and tires across the Simón...

Three more weapons used in Operation Fast and Furious have been recovered at crime scenes in Mexico, Fox News confirms. first reported earlier this week that the guns had been tracked down. According to Justice Department documents, all three are described as WASR-10.762-caliber Romanian rifles and all three were traced to a gun shop in Glendale, Arizona. The exact locations where the guns were recovered, and what crimes the guns may have been used in, was not immediately clear. The...

Colombia’s National Liberation Army (ELN) said late on Feb. 12 it released five employees of a Canadian mining company kidnapped last month. The ELN said in a prepared statement it freed five Geo Explorer employees - three Colombians and two Peruvians - kidnapped Jan. 18. But the terrorist group made no mention of a Canadian citizen whom the Colombian army said earlier this month was among those seized by “bandits” from the ELN in the country’s northern region. So...

The top commander of the largest guerrilla army in Colombia on Monday dismissed government criticisms about the rebels' recent spree of kidnappings and said that "there is no crisis" regarding the ongoing peace talks. The commander who goes by the alias of "Timochenko " said that negotiations between the FARC and the government continued "in normal mode." According to the rebel leader, "nobody has walked out or formally threatened to withdraw."...

HAVANA, -- Representatives of the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group Friday renewed the peace talks in Havana, aimed at ending five decades of fighting in that country. The peace talks had a recess on Thursday, after three days of continuous work at closed doors at the Palace of Conventions in Havana. According to the schedule, the two sides are expected to continue discussions Friday on the integral agricultural development, the...

Today the Colombian government and FARC started their peace negotiation in La Habana, whose purpose is to put an end to the armed conflict of almost fifty-years. Meanwhile the Colombian government has disposed a law to compensate the victims of the confrontation. This would be implemented and verified once all the subjects reach a definitive agreement. In the meeting it will be discussed an integral agricultural development plan, a subject that has a historical background and the rising of...

The discussions, which had been set to begin on Thursday, are the latest attempt to resolve a five-decade war that has left thousands dead and millions more displaced since the founding of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. Negotiations promise to be complicated, with items on the agenda that will almost certainly cause roadblocks and heated discussion. The five-point agenda kicks off with an analysis of rural development. "Delegates of the national government and the...