East Timorese demand justice

Chiapas: one wounded as paras attack Zapatistas
Gunmen of the Organization for the Defense of Indigenous and Campesino Rights (OPDDIC) attacked Zapatista campesinos at the autonomous municipality Olga Isabel "without reason or motive," wounding on in the abdomen. [more]

Bolivia: eastern governors demand withdrawal of national army
Bolivia's opposition governors in the eastern lowlands demanded the national government withdraw its forces from Trinidad, capital of Beni department, accusing them of repression at a youth protest occupation of the National Tax Service offices. [more]

West Bank wall still defies World Court

Venezuela refuses renewed Drug War cooperation
Venezuela rejected US requests to resume Drug War cooperation, saying Washington should focus on slashing demand at home rather than blaming other nations' supposed lack of cooperation. [more]

Fugitive Colombian para-pol busted in Venezuela
Venezuelan National Guard troops in Maracaibo captured fugitive former Colombian senator Alvaro Araujo Noguera, who had been wanted for a year and a half on charges of collaborating with paramilitary warlord "Jorge 40." [more]

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