The city of Culiacán faced panic after ten were killed from confrontations between dozens of armed men.
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On January 31, members of the FARC, the most prominent rebel group in Colombia, began the march towards peace.
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Peace is possible without justice, but real lasting peace will require a strong state to break cultures of violence in Colombia.
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As FARC guerrillas move to hand in their weapons, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace causes nerves amongst lawmakers and the Attorney General of Colombia.
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The Supreme Court of Justice reversed a decision by the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI), ordering the Attorney General (PGR) to release the names of disappeared victims of the past 80 years.
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Twenty-seven years after the end of the Pinochet dictatorship, there was no record of disappeared detainees targeted on the basis of their sexual orientation.
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Twenty-five years after the Chapultepec Peace Agreement that ended El Salvador’s twelve-year civil war, violence remains a persisting issue that harshly hits the country.
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Rodrigo Londoño, top leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is rethinking the date for the guerrillas’ disarmament on the grounds of unstable transitional infrastructure at the fault of the Colombian Government.
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In a public hearing, Manuel Antonio Noriega denied any fault for the Albrook massacre—the executions of officials after the 1989 failed coup d’état—and accused friends of the murdered officials.
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The Sierra Tarahumara is a zone in Chihuahua, Mexico, which shares its border with Sinaloa and Coahuila. More importantly, this zone is one of the few remaining forested areas in Mexico, and is viciously exploited by the timber and pulp industry.
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