Guerrilla Movements

If Colombia is to overcome its legacy of violence and insecurity, the beleaguered justice system must be strengthened, argues Adam Isacson from WOLA.

A CIA document, recently declassified and heavily redacted, has been published by the El Salvador electronic newspaper La Página (2 February 2012). Article in Spanish.

Colombia: will there be an end to the war? In a special analysis for LAB, Garry Leech, who has published numerous books, including one on the FARC, looks at prospects for finally resolving the internal conflict, in the wake of the FARC

Unlike the guerrillas in Colombia and Peru, the Zapatistas have not got involved in the drugs business. How have they managed it?

A small guerrilla group in Paraguay has become a headache for the government. Nick Caistor, from LAB, looks at the return of 'foquismo'. Nick Caistor, from LAB, reports

Indigenous groups on the Atlantic coast and the Sandinistas are gradually learning how to live with each other. An interview with Michael Campbell from CEDEHCA.

COLOMBIA: THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR THE FARC? For the first time since the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) started its armed struggle against the Colombian state in 1964, its top leader has been killed by the army.

The International Crisis Group has published a damning report on the bloody presence of Mexican drug cartels in Guatemala.

The author argues that elements in the Mexican government may be working with the drugs cartels.

The London-based Nicaragua Solidarity campaign has prepared a simple guide to the November general elections.