Ravaged by warring gangs and militarized police, El Salvador grapples with its identity as a democratic nation and a country facing down powerful criminals.
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Attitudes toward marijuana use and legalization are changing in Mexico, but the country’s legislators are slow to change official policy.
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Prison officials in the Northwestern Argentine province of Jujuy are under investigation for negligence after the death of a prisoner in the Penal de Gorriti.
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“Everyone in the National Directorate of Intelligence knew who had killed the Jesuits,” argued Luis Parada, a lieutenant serving with the National Directorate of Intelligence of El Salvador on the day Jesuit priests were murdered at the Universidad Centroamericana.
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The discovery was made in Zitala, Guerrero, and the security spokesperson of the state described it as “terrible.”
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The process continued after “No.”
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Just five minutes away from the famous spa, Punta Hermosa, lies a district full of land traffickers and the absence of adequate police.
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Appalling conditions, including overcrowding, lack of hygiene, and lack of medical care are creating an environment in El Salvador’s prison system in which human rights violations are often left unchallenged.
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The president of the IACHR claimed that the Mexican government version of what happened in the Ayotzinapa case is little more than “fiction.”
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Colombia’s Ombudsman Office has called upon authorities to take urgent measures to protect the civilian population from armed actions carried out by members of Frente Primero.
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