Sunday, July 10, 2011
FARC guerrillas attacked a local market in southwest Colombia Saturday killing at least three people and injuring 70 others in the southwestern town of Toribio, its mayor told French press agency AFP.
“It was a brutal attack by the FARC against the people of Toribio,” mayor Carlso Banguero said. “It appears they used a car bomb loaded with 220 pounds (100 kilos) of explosives and set it off in the center of town at the market,” he added.
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Friday, July 1, 2011
A FARC roadside blitz in the north of Antioquia killed one police major, and wounded five on Wednesday. Police and military officials responded by shutting down the major roadway that connects the city of Medellin with the Caribbean coast.
The ambush occurred near the town of Yarumal, on the road that connects Medellin to the northern municipality of Caucasia and the Caribbean Coast.
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Monday, June 20, 2011
The number of injured in Colombia’s southern Cauca province from a car bomb explosion rose to 17 on Sunday, police said.
Authorities had earlier said that nine people, including two policemen, were injured in the bomb attack that hit the provincial capital of Popayan at midnight Saturday.
Eight more people, including two minors, have been sent to hospitals for medical treatment for severe injuries incurred in the terrorist attack by members of the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group, police said.
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
Peruvian police have arrested a top commander of the Maoist Shining Path guerrilla group in an operation in which two alleged rebel fighters were killed, local media reported on Wednesday.
Edgar Mejia, also known as “Comrade Izula,” was detained at noon, Marlon Savitzky, a police chief in the Huallaga region was quoted as saying by Peru 21 in its website.
Savitzky said the rebel leader is suspected of leading guerrilla groups in two gun battles with police in the past few years in which 11 police officers and a representative of the attorney’s office were killed.
In Peru’s main coca growing regions, the Alto Huallaga, the Ene and Apurimac River Valleys, police and soldiers often clash with cocaine smugglers with links to the Shining Path group that waged a war against the state in the 1980s and 1990s.
The News:
http://news.yahoo.co … /us_peru_guerrilla_1
Friday, October 1, 2010
Ecuador was under a state of siege Friday, the streets quiet with the military in charge of public order, after soldiers rescued President Rafael Correa from a hospital where he’d been surrounded by police who roughed him up and tear-gassed him earlier.
Correa and his ministers called Thursday’s revolt — in which insurgents also paralyzed the nation with airport shutdowns and highway blockades — an attempt to overthrow him and not just a simple insurrection by angry security force members over a new law that would cut benefits for public servants.
The region’s presidents quickly showed their support for Correa, rushing to a meeting in Buenos Aires early Friday and condemning what many called a coup attempt and kidnapping of Correa. The U.S. also warned those who threaten Ecuador’s democracy that the leftist Correa has Washington’s full support.
The News:
http://www.foxnews.c … ion-supports-correa/