Issue Nov 09-15 2022: The Santa Cruz Civic Committee in Bolivia has decided to continue striking and has given the government a 72-hour time limit to free those arrested for violent acts.
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Issue Nov 09-15 2022: In December 2006, when ex-president Felipe Calderón decided to expand military intervention in the war against drug trafficking, a vast nightmare was about to appear.
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Issue Nov 09-15 2022: Manuel Zelaya, the former president of Honduras and current presidential advisor, declared over Twitter that this culture of violence and intimidation has existed in the city for many decades.
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Issue Nov 02-08 2022: After the disappearance of her son Osmar Zúñiga Vázquez on June 14, 2021, María Carmela Vázquez began her search to find him; however, on November 6th, 2022, she was shot and killed outside her home by two individuals on a motorcycle.
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Issue Nov 02-08 2022: Patricia Bullrich threatens to punch Felipe Miguel, chief of staff for Horacio Rodríguez. Buenos Aires Police Department, under Sergio Berni’s leadership, kills a worker from behind.
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Issue Nov 02-08 2022: Journalist Rafael Moreno was assassinated at the age of 37 with two gunshots in a restaurant in Montelíbano, Córdoba.
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Issue Oct 26-Nov 01: Mexico is experiencing an accelerated militarization and is increasingly incorporating elements of a new civil militarism, which is understood as the promotion, reproduction and institutionalization of the military values, attributes, and ways in public life.
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Armed with a Gun, White Politician Pursues Black Journalist on Eve of Brazil’s Presidential Election
Issue Oct 26-Nov 01: On the eve of Brazil’s second round in the presidential election, Carla Zambelli, a white Bolsonaro supporter and federal deputy for São Paulo, was filmed, with gun in hand, pursuing a Black journalist into a bar and repeatedly telling him to “lie down on the floor.”
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Issue Oct 26-Nov 01: Due to a contradiction between the Constitution and congressional law, the National Guard is on unsteady legal footing.
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Under the administration of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, a decree that passed in May 2019 eased gun laws, allowing easier access to higher power weapons.
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