FARC dedicated an homage to “Mono Jojoy” in El Apogeo, a cemetery south of Bogotá, remembering him as “defender of the poor.” In Caquetá, “la disidencia” paid him tribute with arms.
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From 2010 to 2015, the drug cartel system in Mexico has transformed to increase profits.
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In Nicaragua, there have been 44 violent murders against women between January and September.
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September 22nd marks the seventh anniversary of the death of Mono Jojoy, or Victor Julio Suárez from FARC.
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After thirty-six years, the fight for justice continues for the victims and survivors of the El Mozote massacre of 1981. Although a 1993 law of Amnesty buried the case, Jorge Guzmán Urquilla, judge of San Francisco Gotera, reopened the investigations in September of 2016.
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Violence in Rio de Janeiro has finally reached its breaking point, as protests are continuing to rip the city apart.
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This year marks the 40th anniversary of the military invasion of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, which saw almost three thousand soldiers and police officers storm the university campus in a violent attack on students and professors.
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Faced with the violent deaths of 106 human rights defenders in the past years,—with 21 being in the state of Guerrero—the organization Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos Todos los Derechos para Todas y Todos (Red TDT) will initiate a program that observes rights violations and the crack down on drug traffickers in
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Twelve years ago, Jaime Martínez advocated dialogue and truces with gang members. Yet, he has since become one of the main defenders of the actions of El Salvador’s Policía Nacional Civil (PNC), which was recently singled out by the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) for committing extrajudicial executions and human rights violations.
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During the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner (1954-89) in Paraguay, the Comisión de Verdad e Justicia de Paraguay (Commission of Truth and Justice of Paraguay) “registered 425 executed or missing persons and almost 20,000 detainees.”
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