News Round-Up

There's a lot to take note of today, some of it ' memory' related, and some of it absolutely up to date but sharing issues from the past.

Argentina
Represores sin honores (Pagina/12)

Colombia
UN to focus on impunity of extrajudicial executions (Colombia Reports)

Government Appointed Dirty Colonel to Clean Up Military Court:Petro (Colombia Reports)

Almost 27,000 Violent Deaths in Colombia in 2008 (Colombia Reports)

Guatemala
A Candle in the Darkness of Impunity (IPS)

Today in the Americas, Guatemala's Security State (To the Roots)

Peru
Massacre in Peru: Photo Essay and Dispatch on the Bloody Conflict (Upside Down World)

Peru Government Minister Resigns in Protest (IKN)

Eyewitness Reports Accuse Peruvian Police of Disposing the Bodies of Dead Indigenous Protesters (IKN)