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Bogota, February 24th (EFE).- Fifteen rebels of Colombia’s National Liberation Army ( ELN) have deserted the Colombian guerrilla group after drugging their commanders with a sleep inducing plant , in a camp located in the jungle of Nariño province (southwest), as reported by the fugitives to the local press.
Paraguayan anti-drug authorities and the Federal Police of Brazil have agreed to intensify operations to destroy marijuana plantations along their common borders, an official Paraguayan source reported to Asunción.
A photographic history of the War of the Pacific, a conflict between Chile and the joint forces of Peru and Bolivia in the late 19th century, has been rescued by Peruvian Renzo Babilonia in a book documenting the dramatic conflict.
The Federal Police of Bolivia and Brazil signed an agreement Wednesday to strengthen bilateral cooperation in combating organized crime, including actions against drug trafficking, money laundering, and weapons smuggling.
Colombia's main leftist rebel group said Tuesday that it "executed" eight Indians in the country's remote southwest, accusing them of acting as paid informants for Colombia's military.
For the next two years, the “Gigantic Argentinean Dinosaurs” exhibition, which opened today in Buenos Aires, will tour various countries in Europe with original fossils and exact replicas of the dinosaurs that inhabited Argentina, some of which have never been shown abroad.
Britain's heir to the throne, Prince Charles, is to visit the Amazon and the Galapagos Islands next month on a mission promoting environmental preservation, British officials said Friday.
Former leftist FARC rebel Elda Neyis Mosquera, who surrendered to Colombian authorities in May 2008, was sentenced to 33 years in jail for leading an attack in which 14 people were killed.
Ecuador has uncovered a money laundering network worth as much as 60 million dollars, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Today the Federal Police arrested a total of 51 people from two different gangs for their involvement in the trafficking of synthetic drugs in Brazil and in other countries, some of them in Europe, according to official sources.
FARC guerrillas seek to influence the 2010 presidential election by releasing hostages “a few at a time,” Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos warned today.
Joint Paraguayan military and police forces deployed four weeks ago in central and northeastern Paraguay in pursuit of an armed group destroyed 8,900 kilos of marijuana and 400 hectares of the drug, Interior Minister Rafael Filizzola announced today.
