Issue Oct 09-15 2024: Honduran President Xiomara Castro declared that Honduras “should not continue being used as a bridge for drug trafficking to developed countries,” stressing the need for political alternation and transparent elections in 2025.
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Issue Oct 02-08 2024: On Thursday, October 3, Ecuador’s President, Daniel Noboa, declared a 60-day state of emergency in the capital, six provinces, and one municipality.
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Issue Oct 02-08 2024: Peru is facing a surge in crime and insecurity, marked by an increase in extortion and homicides, while the police force struggles with inadequate resources.
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Issue Oct 02-08 2024: The Mexican political climate is encountering growing concerns about violence and anti-democratic actions from right-wing groups in Mexico.
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Issue Sep 25-Oct 01 2024: More than 72,100 bodies remain unidentified in Mexican morgues, a tragic reflection of the country’s ongoing crisis in forensic identification that has exacerbated during the past six years of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)’s government.
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Issue Sep 25-Oct 01 2024: On the night of July 28, the representative of the majority opposition before the electoral body and legal advisor to opposition leader María Corina Machado, Perkins Rocha, made a statement just hours before the National Electoral Council announced its first results bulletin without any backing.
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Issue Sep 25-Oct 01 2024: On September 26, most transport workers in Lima and Callao went on strike due to the increase in extortion cases that have already left at least three victims dead.
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Issue Sep 25-Oct 01 2024: In a public press release on September 19, 2024, Colombia’s Unidad de Implementación del Acuerdo de Paz called on peace dialogues with the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) to continue.
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Issue Sep 18-24 2024: The youth wing of Chile’s Republican Party recently posted a video on social media in which they celebrated the military coup of September 11, 1973, carried out by Chile’s Armed Forces.
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Issue Sep 18-24 2024: In the context of current violence, it seems that organized crime groups seek to capture spaces of decision-making, economic production, and social life.
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