Category: North America
November 2, 2015 > Franco Bastida
UN Refugee Agency Sounds Alarm on Violence Against Women in Central America, Mexico
WASHINGTON — Norma witnessed routine gunfights and murders when she lived in El Salvador. She paid a biweekly cuota, or street tax, to the Barrio 18 gang members controlling her […] Read More >
November 2, 2015 > Staff
Sexual Harassment on Mexican TV Show Sparks Debate, Calls for Government Investigation
Top Story — A potentially pre-planned instance of sexual harassment between a male presenter and his female co-host on Mexican television last week has sparked a national debate on sexism and […] Read More >
October 21, 2015 > Staff
Mexico Announces New Investigation Into Student Disappearances
Top Story — Mexican authorities on Tuesday announced they will conduct a new investigation into the fate of 43 missing students whose disappearance in the state of Guerrero in 2014 […] Read More >
October 20, 2015 > Staff
Report: Corruption Probe into Walmart’s Mexican Operations Unlikely to Result in Prosecutions
Top Story — A three-year investigation led by the U.S. Justice Department has found little evidence of corruption in the business practices of Walmart executives in Mexico, a Wall Street […] Read More >
October 12, 2015 > Staff
Mexico’s Attorney General Releases Files on ‘Flawed’ Iguala Probe
Top Story — Mexico’s attorney general on Sunday released a massive trove of files pertaining to her office’s investigation of the disappearances last year of 43 students in the state […] Read More >
October 9, 2015 > Staff
US Documents Show Pinochet Ordered Letelier Bombing
Top Story — Declassified U.S. documents revealed Thursday show that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet personally ordered the 1976 assassination in Washington D.C. of an exiled Chilean diplomat, The Associated […] Read More >
October 8, 2015 > Staff
UN Rights Chief Wants Mexican Troops Off Streets
Top Story — The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein on Wednesday called for Mexico’s military forces to cease law enforcement operations and be pulled from […] Read More >
October 8, 2015 > Dusty Christensen
As UN Debate on Decolonization Begins, Puerto Rico Presses for Self-Determination
NEW YORK — Advocates of Puerto Rican self-determination have for decades claimed that their status as a U.S. commonwealth amounts to second-class citizenship, but regular petitions to the United Nations’ […] Read More >
October 1, 2015 > Staff
In Policy Shift, Mexico Extradites Traffickers to United States
Top Story — Mexico extradited 13 people to the United States on Wednesday as part of what The Associated Press called new efforts at coordination between the two countries in […] Read More >
September 26, 2015 > Cleuci de Oliveira
One Year On, Truth Remains Elusive in Case of Mexico’s Missing Students
One year ago today, a convoy of students travelling from a rural teachers’ college in Mexico was ambushed and greeted with deadly force in the town of Iguala, about 90 […] Read More >