The government of former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe used selected computer files of Raúl Reyes, the leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) killed on March 1, 2008 in Ecuador, to harm his counterparts Rafael Correa of Ecuador and Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, according to US diplomatic cables leaked by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks. The US Embassy in Bogotá followed every Colombian government's step, as shown by the cables sent to...

Packed together in the tightest of cabins, with little air to breathe and no space at all in which to move, the migrants in this picture show just how far some will go to try to sneak into America. Mexican police found the 513 agonisingly squashed together in two trucks just outside Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas - an eye-watering 18-hour-drive away from the nearest US border. They were caught when the trucks sped through a vehicle scanner at a police checkpoint. After the astonishing X-ray image...

Radio journalist Julio Castillo Narváez’s murder in Virú (in the northwestern department of La Libertad) on 3 May, World Press Freedom Day, has cast a further shadow over a day that is meant to be a celebration for journalists and media all over the world. Unidentified gunmen shot him six times while he was having lunch in a restaurant. His death was very probably linked to his work as the producer of a news programme on Radio Ollantay. He had been very critical of the...

We arrived on foot, as did the ancient Mexicans, to this place where they for the first time beheld the lake, eagle, snake, cactus and stone, the emblem that founded the nation and has accompanied the peoples of Mexico over the centuries. We come to this corner where he once lived in Tenochtitlan, to this corner where the state and church are built on the foundations of a past rich in lessons and where the roads meet and diverge, “we have come here to make visible again the roots of our...

SAN DIEGO - A terrorist organization whose home base is in the Middle East has established another home base across the border in Mexico. “They are recognized by many experts as the ‘A’ team of Muslim terrorist organizations,” a former U.S. intelligence agent told 10News. The former agent, referring to Shi’a Muslim terrorist group Hezbollah, added, “They certainly have had successes in big-ticket bombings.” Some of the group’s bombings include...

(Port-au-Prince) - The prosecution of the former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier represents a landmark opportunity for the Haitian justice system to address some of the worst crimes in Haiti's past, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 47-page report, "Haiti's Rendezvous With History: The Case of Jean-Claude Duvalier," examines the legal and practical questions surrounding the case and concludes that Haiti has an obligation under international law to investigate and...

A total of 159 attacks against journalists and media outlets were reported last year in Venezuela, according to media watchdog Espacio Público (Public Space), which acknowledged that this is the lowest number since 2002, but said it is still "worrying," because it shows that there were three cases on a weekly basis. The data were included in the annual report that Carlos Correa, the director of Espacio Público, presented on Monday morning at Centro Gumilla, a Jesuit...

Dozens of people demonstrated in front of the headquarters of the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs to reject the deportation to Colombia of Joaquín Pérez Becerra, an alleged member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and editor of the Stockholm-based Noticias Nueva Colombia (Anncol) news agency. They defended him on the grounds that his detention was a violation to human rights. "We are in the streets to demand the government to respect our...

A Libyan delegation has arrived in Caracas to discuss a peaceful solution to the ongoing war conflict in the North African country, said on Tuesday Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez. The Venezuelan Head of State is an ally of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi. Chávez has supported Gaddafi since the outbreak of a widespread revolt against the Libyan ruler in February, Reuters reported. "A delegation sent by Gaddafi has arrived in Venezuela, is in Venezuela, and we are...

(Washington, DC) - Peru should conduct a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into the killing of 3 demonstrators and injuring of at least 31 others during confrontations with the police in Islay province, Human Rights Watch said today. The confrontations, since April 3, 2011, came during protests against the results of an environmental impact test of a potential mining project in the province of Islay. A local human rights group said in a statement that the police threw tear gas...