Help keep Salon independent

Frank Bajak

In this May 9, 2014 photo, men and women, all wearing citizen patrol vests and wielding whips, take part in a hearing of an accused community member, in the Cajamarca municipality, Santa Rosa de Chumbil, Peru. For all but the most serious crimes, this is how justice is routinely administered in this highlands provincial capital of 200,000 people: self-appointed bands of vigilantes known as "rondos urbanas," or urban patrols, take on the roles of police, prosecutors and judges. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia) (AP)

In Peru, whip-cracking vigilantes serve up justice

Frank Bajak

FILE - In this March 6, 2014, file photo, Colombian Nobel Literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez greets fans and reporters outside his home on his birthday in Mexico City.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File) (AP)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez dead: “One Hundred Years of Solitude” author dies at 87

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Air France cocaine bust yields nine arrests

Frank Bajak, Fabiola Sanchez

Miners do not disclose ordeal details

Frank Bajak

21 miners free; Chile rescue past halfway mark

Frank Bajak, Vivian Sequera

19 miners free; Chile rescue past halfway mark

Frank Bajak, Vivian Sequera

In this photo released by the Chilean presidential press office, Chile's President Sebastian Pinera, front right, hugs rescued miner Florencio Avalos after Avalos was rescued from the the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine where he was trapped with 32 other miners for over two months near Copiapo, Chile, Tuesday Oct. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Jose Manuel de la Maza, Chilean presidential press office) (AP)

Chile rejoices over mine rescue

Frank Bajak, Vivian Sequera

U.S. expert: Chile “good and lucky” but risks remain

Frank Bajak

Ecuadorean leader calls protest a coup attempt

Frank Bajak, Gonzalo Solano

Joran van der Sloot in Peruvian prosecutors’ hands

Frank Bajak

Rescue workers search for victims and survivors after an apartment complex collapsed during an earthquake in Concepcion some 100 km (62 miles) south of the epicenter, February 27, 2010. A huge magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck Chile early on Saturday, knocking down homes and hospitals, and triggering a tsunami that rolled menacingly across the Pacific REUTERS/Jose Luis Saavedra (CHILE - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT IMAGES OF THE DAY) (Reuters)

Chile was ready for quake, Haiti wasn’t

Frank Bajak

Haiti judge to free some detained U.S. missionaries

Frank Bajak