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 19, 2015 > Staff
Colombian Government, FARC Agree to Search for Tens of Thousands of Missing People
Top Story — Colombia’s government and FARC rebels agreed Saturday to collaborate on finding the tens of thousands of people who have disappeared since the country’s armed conflict began more […] Read More >
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 >