LIMA, Peru (Reuters) -- The police and demonstrators opposed to an irrigation project in the south of the country clashed Thursday, killing one man and injuring 18, as President Alan García faced a new conflict over natural resources in Peru's surging economy. The skirmish occurred before dawn in the town of Espinar, 400 miles south of Lima,...
Left-leaning South American leaders criticized Colombia on Friday for agreeing to allow the United States to increase its military presence on Colombian bases. At a meeting in Bariloche, Argentina, leaders from Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia made clear their vehement opposition to the decision by President Álvaro Uribe of Colombia to expand...

Peru's Congress on Thursday overturned two decrees by President Alan García that were aimed at opening large areas of the Peruvian Amazon to logging, dams and oil drilling but set off protests by indigenous groups this month in which dozens died. The move appeared to ease tensions with the indigenous groups, which had continued with their protests...
Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez (født 23. maj 1949 i Lima) er en peruviansk politiker. Han var landets præsident fra 1985 til 1990, og blev i 2006 valgt for en ny præsidentperiode.