Mexico Goverment-Drug Cartel Collusion: The Hybrid Threat
The author argues that elements in the Mexican government may be working with the drugs cartels.
Colombia peace talks
The Santos government has announced exploratory peace talks with the FARC guerrilla movement
Mexico: Displaced Zapatistas Return Home
Zapatistas return home after being violently forced from their homes after they stood up to the government over their wish for autonomous education. Davies discusses their fight for autonomy against a government they see as corrupt.
Cuba’s Communist Party Congress: back to the future?
LAB's Nick Caistor, who visited Cuba recently, analyses the changes expected in the island after the Communist Party Congress.
COLOMBIA: 38 indians demobilised through work of local NGO
At least 38 Indians, 20 of them minors and the rest no older than 25, have turned in their weapons and left behind the Colombian armed conflict thanks to a program sponsored by the Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca, or ACIN.
Colombia: FARC Calls for Prisoner Swap
Hopes for a prisoner-for-hostage swap follow release of Sergeant Moncayo, reports IPS.
Colombia: Demobilised paramilitaries back in action
It is time for the Colombian authorities to acknowledge the failure of the paramilitary demobilisation argues C.L Smith.
Right-wing extremists set to take control of US House Foreign Affairs...
As a result of the Nov. 2 elections in the US, right-wing extremists are poised to re-set the legislative agenda on Latin America in the House of Representatives.
Colombia: anger at expulsion of senator
Messages of support from all over the world have been pouring in to the widely respected Colombian Senator, Piedad Cordoba, after the inspector-general's unexpected decision to kick her out of Congress.
Colombia: President Santos hails death of country’s most-wanted criminal
Santos hailed the success of ‘Operation Diamond’ as he confirmed on 29 December the death of Guerrero, the head of the criminal group called the Popular Anticommunist Revolutionary Army of Colombia (ERPAC).