Prosecutors in Costa Rica have launched an investigation into a suspected coup that intended to oust President Carlos Alvarado Quesada from office.
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A recent interview with former Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos exposed a radical policy change that may be facing the country soon: the complete legalization of drugs.
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Seventy-eight human rights activists were assassinated in Colombia in 2021.
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The murder of Benjamín López Palacios, president of the indigenous municipality of Xoxocotla, occurred on January 11, 2022, in the midst of a political and security crisis for the administration of former soccer player and current governor of Morelos, Cuauhtémoc Blanco Bravo.
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Wednesday, January 5, marked the beginning of the trial against five civilian ex-patrolmen, who were accused of systematically raping 36 indigenous Maya Achí women during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960-1996).
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A report recently released by the organization Control Ciudadano found that 51 Venezuelans were killed by police and members of National Bolivarian Armed Forces (FANB) in December 2021.
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Since March of 2020, at least 1,940 journalists from 94 countries have died of COVID-19.
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Twenty-one years have passed since the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) murdered 60 people in the village of El Salado and caused more than a thousand residents to flee.
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Simulations carried out in 2020 revealed how elite troops of Brazil’s army are being trained to fight the left and social movements.
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José Miguel Vivanco (60) has served as director of Human Rights Watch for the Americas for around 30 years and is now retiring from this position.
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