Nicaragua grants asylum to Colombian guerrilla
Nicaragua granted asylum to a second Colombian guerrilla that was in the Ecuadorean camp of Raúl Reyes when Colombia attacked and killed the FARC commander and more than twenty others, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega announced.
Brazil has granted political asylum to a Bolivian senator who sought refuge in the Brazilian Embassy in La Paz in late May, claiming that his allegations of drug trafficking and corruption against the government of Evo Morales made him a target of political persecution.