Category: Dispatches
October 1, 2018 > Nidia Bautista
“Porros”: The Criminal Shock Groups Disrupting Student Protests in Mexico
In Mexico, violent groups likened to goon squads and criminal shock groups have rattled student protestors for decades. In the latest rash of violence, a large group of porros—Spanish slang […] Read More >
September 28, 2018 > Alanna Elder
A year after María, 150 years after the Grito, Manhattanites march
Late at night a century and a half ago, hundreds of rebels against Spanish rule entered the town of Lares in the western part of Puerto Rico and captured the […] Read More >
September 26, 2018 > Jo Corona
Nicaragua poised to clash with US at UN General Assembly
The United States put the roiling domestic unrest in Nicaragua on the UN Security Council’s agenda this month, only days after the country expelled a UN human rights mission sent […] Read More >
July 11, 2018 > Jo Corona
Marichuy: Weaving the Resistance Beyond the Mexican Elections
A few days before Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s landslide victory as president-elect of Mexico and as he addressed the people of Guerrero and Michoacán, an early opponent, one backed […] Read More >
May 9, 2018 > Center for Investigative Journalism
Official Reports of Violence Against Women in Puerto Rico Unreliable After Hurricane Maria
By Claire Tighe and Lauren Gurley | Special for the Center for Investigative Journalism More than seven months after Hurricane Maria, organizations serving domestic violence and sexual assault victims […] Read More >
April 12, 2018 > Ricky Ochoa-Kaup
López Obrador broadens his base in an effort to win the presidency on his third attempt
“Populist,” “anti-business” were the common media shorthand to describe Andrés Manuel López Obrador in his failed 2006 and 2012 bids to become president of Mexico. This round, he is now […] Read More >
April 4, 2018 > Jacquelyn Kovarik
Goni and El Zorro fall and $10 Million is awarded to Indigenous Bolivian survivors in landmark human rights case
FORT LAUDERDALE, April 3, 2018—In an unexpected move, a federal jury found the ex-President of Bolivia, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, and his foreign minister, Carlos Sánchez Berzaín, responsible for the […] Read More >
March 21, 2018 > Isabel Caballero-Samper
The Colombian peace process threw the wrongfully convicted into a legal void
NEW YORK—The story of a man named Gilberto Torres Muñetón appeared in several Colombian newspapers recently. His is the first case of a convicted FARC member transferred from the ordinary […] Read More >
February 22, 2018 > Hanna Wallis
Armed Groups Continue to Threaten Indigenous Communities in Colombia
TACUEYÓ, Colombia—Sparks flew into the air from a drill saw struggling through confiscated machine guns. On Feb.11, hundreds of people gathered for a community assembly in Tacueyó, Cauca to witness […] Read More >
February 19, 2018 > Jo Corona
Juan Rulfo, Rediscovering a Literary Giant
NEW YORK—Critics in Mexico had little use for Juan Rulfo’s novel when “Pedro Páramo” first appeared in 1955, and the slender volume that would become a national treasure sold poorly […] Read More >