South America correspondent Daniel Schweimler
Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay remains in intensive care after he was shot three times - twice in the head - at a campaign event in the capital, Bogotá.
There's tension in Bolivia ahead of presidential elections in August and in Panama where banana workers have been on strike for nearly two months.
And prosecutors in Brazil have filed criminal charges against the man accused of murdering indigenous rights activist, Bruno Pereira, and British journalist, Dom Phillips, deep in the Amazon jungle three years ago.
