On June 23, 2016 the member states of the Organization of American States met at the OAS headquarters in Washington, D.C. in the guise of its Permanent Council to discuss Secretary General Luis Almagro’s invocation of the OAS Democratic Charter in the case of Venezuela.  Almagro wanted to sanction the government of President Nicolás Maduro

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) held its 68th World Congress of News Media in Cartagena, Colombia from June 12 to June 14, 2016, with the support of the Asociación Colombiana de Editores de Diarios y Medios Informativos.  Hundreds of journalists and editors descended on the beautiful, walled, colonial city on the

On June 5, 2016 Peruvians voted in the runoff presidential election between Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (known as “PPK,” as is his party, Peruanos Por el Kambio) and Keiko Fujimori of the Fuerza Popular or FP.  Fujimori came out on top in the first round with 39.85% of the vote.  And while the majority of Peruvians

In late May 2016, journalists Salud Hernández, Diego D’Pablos, and Carlos Melo were abducted by armed men in the Catatumbo region of the department of Norte de Santander, Colombia.  It immediately became apparent that they were taken by members of Colombia’s second largest guerrilla group, the ELN (Ejército de Liberación Nacional). Though they were quickly