According to the international non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch evidence suggests that high-ranking army officers in Colombia were aware of extrajudicial killings of civilians.
Colombian army officers who concealed civilian casualties as guerrilla combat deaths in an effort to inflate body counts that led to promotions and bonuses today are escaping punishment for their roles in what the Associated Press called "one of Latin America's worst atrocities."
The Venezuelan election authority has set the South American country's parliamentary election for Dec. 6. The move comes after opponents of embattled President Nicolás Maduro had demanded for months that the purportedly independent National Electoral Council determine a date for the vote.
The terrorist group ISIS has just released a graphic propaganda video that shows five prisoners being murdered by locking them into a metal cage and lowering them into a swimming pool.
The Tokyo 2020 organizing committee has announced that nine new sports (represented by eight International Federations) might be added to the Summer Olympic Games
The rapprochement between Washington and Havana is expanding to cultural issues as U.S. and local authorities are embarking on a joint effort to restore and preserve Ernest Hemingway's house near the Cuban capital.
The wife of a close associate of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday apologized for a tweet in which she had called President Barack Obama "black and weak."
Some 22 people have died in what Agence France-Presse has described as "three days of violence" in northern Mexico; authorities announced the new death count after they discovered five more bodies on Sunday in the country's state of Nuevo León.
Despite recent speculation that she might run for congress, Argentine president Cristina Fernandez says she will not seek another political office when her second term ends in December.
Colombia is protesting against Venezuela over territorial disputes. Colombia is protesting against Venezuela over territorial disputes, Reuters reports.
A Mexican lawmaker has launched a campaign against people who make offensive memes. A Mexican lawmaker has launched a campaign against people who make offensive memes.
Eight Brazilian senators who were trying to meet with jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez in Venezuela say that they had to flee for safety after their bus was attacked.
According to the The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and Reconciliation, there are currently 60 political prisoners jailed in the communist country and 11 people under some form of parole
Pope Francis' long-awaited encyclical "Laudato Si'," in which the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics warned that climate change had brought the planet to a "breaking point" and called for an environmental "revolution," has received mixed reactions across the American political landscape.
