Issue Sep 07-13 2022: The majority of El Salvador’s populace supports President Nayib Bukele’s imposition of repeated states of emergency – five since March 2022 – in an iron-fisted attempt at wrestling crime and the rule of gangs in the country under state control.  Tamara Taraciuk Broner reported for El Faro Magazine of San Salvador,

In the attempted assassination of Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the federal judge presiding over the case has stated that she suspects the attacker “did not act alone.”

Repression during Brazil’s military dictatorship “was cruel and cowardly.”

Between January and July of 2022, there were 1,030 robberies of people, homes, cars and economic units in the Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas region.

Narciso González, journalist and university professor, was forcibly disappeared in May 1994, during the last government of Joaquín Balaguer.

Luis Arce, president of Bolivia, advanced the country’s efforts for peace by signing a reparation agreement with the victims of the military dictatorships that took place between 1964 and 1982.

Since July 2022, a rumor has been spreading regarding Lula’s health as he started dieting to lose weight.

On the 50th anniversary of the Trelew Massacre, Argentina reflected on the crimes of the former dictatorship.

Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso declared a state of emergency in Guayaquil after an explosion, attributed to organized crime, killed five people and left 17 injured on August 14.

The former Vice President of Paraguay, Óscar Denis, has now spent over 700 days under the control of the Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo (EPP), a Marxist-Leninist guerilla group operating within the country.