Second Latin America news roundup - December 6, 2009

TOP STORY - Thousands attend funeral of Chilean singer Victor Jara (DPA)

Bolivia - We are All Bolivians Now (FireDogLake)

Colombia - Former Rebel Hostage Running for Colombian Senate (Latin American Herald Tribune)

Colombia - The Ill-Advised US Certification of Colombia on Human Rights (COHA)

Colombia - A US-backed terror state (Green Left Weekly)

El Salvador - Report Cites Progress in El Salvador in First 100 Days of Funes Administration; CDA Offers Sympathy to Flood Victims (PR Newswire)

Guatemala - Guatemala army officer convicted in civil war case (Associated Press)

Honduras - Tragedy of Honduras appears lost in news of troop escalation in Afghanistan (New York Daily News)

United States - Do Obama officials know what his Afghanistan plan is? (Salon)

World - Australian and New Zealand socialists support Chavez's call for a new international organisation of the left (Links)