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March 26, 2018

Brazil

The response here illustrates a national reality: Brazilians want security — and are backing heavy-handed tactics to get it

Allegations that some of the victims were innocent residents executed in a revenge mission after a police officer was killed there

Colombia

A cuatro meses de que se acabe el gobierno Santos y con el candidato uribista Iván Duque punteando en las encuestas, la implementación del Acuerdo está empantanada y estas son las alarmas que lo muestran

Desde el pasado 14 de marzo desacuerdos entre el Eln y el Epl desembocaron en un enfrentamiento armado sin precedentes en la historia de ambas organizaciones

Combined operations between U.S., Colombian, and Mexican forces are conducted in and around Tumaco and in the waters of the Pacific

Hay doce modalidades de asesinato de líderes sociales establecidas por el Cuerpo Élite. Investigan posibles hechos sistemáticos en Urabá relacionados con la reclamación y restitución de tierras

Trump’s Thursday decision to oust national security adviser H.R. McMaster and bring in John Bolton increases the probability that Trump will dump Macmanus

Ecuador

The government of former President Rafael Correa abused the criminal justice system to target indigenous leaders and environmentalists who protested mining and oil exploration in the Amazon

Durante el gobierno de Rafael Correa, la cooperación con Estados Unidos se vio seriamente disminuida

Mexico

Traversing the border area, the photographer John Moore covered the story of immigration from all sides. Here are 17 striking photographs

The Trump administration has remained quiet on the Internal Security Law and has continued with plans to support Mexico’s security forces

The highest rates of disappearances are concentrated in the border states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo León and Sonora, according to the study

Mexico’s navy said in a statement that the gunmen had fake marine uniforms and markings on their vehicles

Desde la primera hora de hoy, en tres diferentes acciones, personal naval fue agredido con armas de fuego en distintos puntos de Nuevo Laredo

Western Hemisphere Regional

Executing a few individual smugglers will do little to stop others because there is no high command of the international drug trade to target

The image of U.S. leadership took a hit worldwide during Donald Trump’s first year in office, but nowhere more so than in Latin America, where the median approval rating dropped from 49% in 2016 to 24% in 2017