Israeli mercenary Yair Klein claimed his arrival in Colombia in the 1980′s to train paramilitary groups was undertaken with the approval of Colombian and Israeli authorities. The former Israeli lieutenant was interviewed for an upcoming book, “The Klein Case: The Origin of Paramilitarism” by Colombian journalist Olga Behar, and claimed he had no idea what [...]

Hondurans are still suffering from the effects of the June 2009 military coup that overthrew the democratically elected government of President Manuel Zelaya. The coup has unleashed a wave of violence against political opposition, journalists, small farmers and others, with impunity for the security forces that have been implicated in these killings. This is exactly [...]

Dublin, Ireland, 5th March: To mark the 5th of the month for the Cuban Five, US peace activist Cindy Sheehan read out a letter to President Obama in front of the US Embassy in Dublin this morning , asking him to exercise his executive powers to free the Cuban anti-terrorists fighters incarcerated in prisons in [...]

KABUL, March 10 (Reuters) – Five Taliban detainees held at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay military prison have agreed to be transferred to Qatar, a move Afghanistan believes will boost a nascent peace process, President Hamid Karzai’s spokesman said on Saturday. The transfer idea is part of U.S. efforts to bring the Taliban to the negotiating [...]

In a TV appearance on Sunday morning, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez said that the lesion recently removed by doctors in Cuba was cancerous and that further radiotherapy will be necessary. It was Chavez’s first TV appearance in over a week, a long time for a president who over nine years has become the face of [...]

In his book, In Cuba, Father Ernesto Cardenal — the famous Nicaraguan priest, revolutionary and poet who is known to don a black beret a la Che Guevara – described Cuba as a giant monastery, with the residents living austere, but meaningful lives in service to others. While this a romantic portrait, of course, and [...]

A Florida judge has paved the way for the deportation of a former top Salvadoran general accused of overseeing widespread torture and murder, including the notorious killing of several Americans during the country’s civil war. The decision marks the first time a US court has determined a senior foreign military official could be deported on [...]

Colombia’s largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), has announced that it will release what it calls its remaining prisoners of war. “The whole idea of negotiations has been removed from the table as an option for the last decade. Now we’re seeing the FARC militarily weakened. The problem is, there was [...]

As she stands among villagers in the highlands of western Panama, their chosen leader, Silvia Carrera, is an image of bucolic harmony. Then Carrera, elected chief or general cacique of the Ngäbe-Buglé community, gestures to a woman who hands her a bag of spent US riot-control equipment – rubber bullet casings, shotgun shells, sting-ball grenades, [...]

The absurdity of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba was evident from the moment of its inception 50 years ago this month, when President John F. Kennedy ordered press secretary Pierre Salinger to buy 1,200 H. Upmann Cuban cigars before signing the order. The embargo failed in its primary objective to remove the Castro brothers [...]