Chile upheld the convictions of former agents who disappeared two youths who belonged to the Communist Party, while witnesses in Guatemala told of how their family members disappeared. 

The Colombian government and FARC guerrilla have started a new round of talks focusing on the victims, though President Santos wants the military to keep up the pressure. 

The Dutch peace organization PAX must answer for “defamation, slander, and possibly criminal acts” said the American coal company Drummond, denying that it financed paramilitary groups in the northern department of César.  The Dutch remain unmoved. 

An autodefensa leader is arrested, a “spiraling violence” of shootings and kidnappings continues inVeracruz, and in the heart of the “Golden Triangle” a jailed narco still rules.