Category: Regions
October 16, 2015 > Staff
Exiled Venezuelan Opposition Leader Arrested Upon Returning Home
Top Story — Former Venezuelan opposition Governor Manuel Rosales, who represented the oppositional Un Nuevo Tiempo party, was arrested on Thursday by intelligence police at the Caracas airport upon returning from […] Read More >
October 15, 2015 > Staff
Peru Will Probe Military Collusion With Traffickers After Damning Report
Top Story — Peruvian authorities on Wednesday announced they will investigate corruption in the armed forces following an investigation by The Associated Press detailing the near impunity with which illegal flights […] Read More >
October 15, 2015 > Camila Osorio
In Search for the Next UN Secretary General, Women Fight for Recognition
NEW YORK — Feminist activists, scholars and at least 45 United Nations member states are leading a campaign to make a woman the next U.N. secretary general in what would […] Read More >
October 14, 2015 > Staff
Brazil’s Supreme Court Grants President Temporary Impeachment Reprieve
Top Story — Brazil’s Supreme Court gave president Dilma Rousseff a temporary reprieve from the threat of impeachment on Tuesday, ruling against lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha on issues relating […] Read More >
October 13, 2015 > Staff
Some Migrants Deported to Central America Killed on Arrival, Investigation Finds
Top Story — Undocumented immigrants recently deported by the United States face threats of violence upon their return to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, according to a new investigation by […] 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 7, 2015 > Staff
Brazil’s Rousseff Faces Two-Front Battle on Charges of Election Irregularities
Top Story — Brazil’s highest electoral court on Tuesday ruled in favor of an investigation into the alleged misuse of campaign funds by President Dilma Rousseff, setting the stage for […] Read More >