Issue Jun 19-30 2024: Human rights organizations in Ecuador oppose the construction of a new high-security prison modeled after those in El Salvador, claiming the site in Santa Elena province belongs to indigenous communities and lacks an environmental impact assessment.
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Issue Jun 12-18 2024: A recent publication by the paramilitary group Autodefensas Conquistadoras de la Sierra Nevada has sparked a significant controversy in the Magdalena department, revealing alleged ties between local politicians and illegal armed groups.
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Issue Jun 12-18 2024: The clashes between the Colombian armed groups Comandos de Frontera and the Carolina Ramírez Front over the control of coca plantations and drug trafficking routes pose a severe threat to the Siona Indigenous people inhabiting the Amazonian border regions of Colombia (Putumayo) and Ecuador (Sucumbíos).
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Issue Jun 12-18 2024: Latin America is experiencing a third transnational crime wave, as criminal groups expand their activities and extend the reach of their operations.
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Issue Jun 12-18 2024: After visiting Chile for a tribute to former President Sebastián Piñera and meeting with President Gabriel Boric, Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou spoke with CNN Chile.
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Issue Jun 05-11 2024: The victims included a surveyor hired to measure a farm on public land, along with three local peasants involved in a land dispute with the rancher.
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Issue Jun 05-11 2024: Scattered across the Americas, the remnants of MS-13 now languish in self-imposed exile, having fled El Salvador’s State of Exception.
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Issue Jun 05-11 2024: In her article, “The Words of War,” Professor María Teresa Uribe highlighted that both war and peace are enveloped in rhetoric and discourse, setting the stage for the ongoing debate between Álvaro Leyva and Juan Manuel Santos.
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Issue May 29-Jun 04 2024: Sidney Sanches Zamora Filho, a wealthy rancher from São Paulo, has drawn attention due to his varied business enterprises and his ongoing conflict with over 200 local farmers who claim to have rights to the land.
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Issue May 29-Jun 04 2024: Several people have been assassinated in Ecuador due to a violent wave of armed attacks.
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