Issue May 15-21 2024: Several explosive attacks were perpetrated by dissidents of FARC in Cauca on May 20.
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Issue May 15-21 2024: After Evo Morales’ accusations against the Vice Minister of Social Defense and Controlled Substances, Jaime Mamani, for allegedly being linked to drug trafficking and extortion, the deputy for the coalition Comunidad Ciudadana (CC), Alberto Astorga, asserted that these statements show that the Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) is linked to these illegal
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Issue May 08-14 2024: El Salvador’s congress has approved a 26th extension of the country’s so-called state of exception, which suspends constitutional rights relating to arrests and detention.
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Issue May 08-14 2024: The Frente Comuneros del Sur (Comuneros), a combat group in the mountainous Nariño district in Colombia, announced their break with the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) in order to initiate territorial peace agreements with the government.
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Issue May 08-14 2024: According to the Comisión Nacional de Búsqueda, there are 116,204 persons who are missing and unaccounted for in Mexico.
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Issue May 08-14 2024: Deputies of the Chilean Communist Party have vehemently opposed a new amendment that would allow elderly individuals charged with human rights violations and crimes against humanity to complete their sentences under house arrest.
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Issue Apr 24-May 07 2024: The start of Dilian F. Toro’s second term as governor of Valle del Cauca, Colombia, has been marred by a wave of April killings which have shaken even the violence-accustomed region.
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Issue Apr 24-May 07 2024: The “Flights of Death” were a counterinsurgency strategy conducted from 1973 to 1981, targeting individuals associated with political-military dissident groups, or guerrillas.
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Issue Apr 24-May 07 2024: “There is no more violence,” says Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), president of Mexico, though statistics show a more complicated picture.
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Issue Apr 17-23 2024: Extrajudicial execution processes against several ex-military officials in Colombia have moved on to the Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP)’s Unidad de Investigación y Acusación.
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