Last week Tom Brokaw presented a human rights award to Gabriel Gonzalez. The thoughtful young man then flew home to Colombia, where he is charged with being a terrorist and faces seven years in prison.
As the U.S. unemployment rate climbs toward 10 percent and the economy faces a lengthy and uncertain recovery process, Congress and the last two admin...
The speed and agility with which large numbers of people can now express their support (or outrage) is changing the face of human rights advocacy around the world.
"I have to admit that I'm beginning to miss George W. Bush," is the way former Republican Senator "Chuck" Hagel responded when being asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer to assess the foreign policy record of the administration of Republican President John McCain.
News reports say that 40 members of Colombian death squads, responsible for the execution of thousands, have been recruited by Honduran plantation owners to protect their interests.
Australians are acutely aware that the U.S. is and has been since 1971 the chest-thumping, fist-banging four-star general in the global war on drugs. Their willingness to stand up to our bullying ways is growing.
For over 20 years Captain Mario Rodríguez has worked to counter the steady advancement of the transportation technologies employed by Colombian traffickers to smuggle cocaine into Mexico and the U.S.
The LA Times is applauding the order of a Colombian judge that top officials of the mining corporation Drummond be investigated as the intellectual authors of the brutal slayings of three union leaders.
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My image of a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla was not a small-framed pretty girl in a jean-jacket, hands bangled in silver rings and white-sparkling nail-polish.
The meeting between Chávez and Uribe could, years from now, be seen as a crucial turning point for South America's political stability. Latin America, as a whole, is suddenly in bad shape.
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The last thing president Lula and Brazilian democracy need is the United States on its northern border using the drug war to interfere in internal politics like it has done in the past with Mexico.
Mexico did not take lightly to the U.S. closing our border to their trucks -- that's why they're called "trade wars."
Uprooted from their land and stripped of their rights as citizens, one wonders to whom these people belong, and what society they are a part of.
Latin America may well be where the decline and fall of Obama's global rock star status begins.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe may have good news to share with Obama when they meet on Monday: his government has managed to significantly increase the security of trade unionists.
Domestic concerns urge Uribe to meet with Obama; blamed for neglecting relationships with democrats, he needs to demonstrate to the country's leadership that he is in good terms with the Obama administration.
Turning a blind eye to Colombia's problems only helped to solidify the perception in Latin America that the United States applied a double standard when it came to democracy and human rights.
The following incident, which took place when I first established a retreat center in Colombia, shows that an inherent desire for peace permeates humanity across the globe.
By Andrew Hudson Senior Associate at Human Rights First Colombia is high on the list of U.S. foreign policy priorities at the moment: the U.S. has a ...
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