Ariana Cubillos/AP photo at The Miami Herald. Caption: “In this April 18, 2018 photo, residents of La Chinita neighborhood hold a sign with a message that reads in Spanish: ’24 days without light, without answers,’ during a protest in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Blackouts are nothing new under two decades of socialist rule in Venezuela. But they’ve grown more frequent, and are lasting longer.”

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May 14, 2018

Brazil

Decisão do Itamaraty vem em resposta a uma carta do filho do jornalista Vladimir Herzog, morto pela ditadura durante o governo do general Ernesto Geisel

Central America Regional, Colombia

Although it is his first time commanding Marines, Del Rio’s career has been filled with prior experience with training and attending formal schools with Marines

Colombia

Hay noticias de presencia de las disidencias de las Farc en todos los países vecinos, a excepción de Panamá. El tráfico de drogas es el principal motivo, sumado a la presión militar

Para los campesinos, que crezca la maleza y se expanda es prueba fehaciente de los retrasos de esta iniciativa

Están en juego desde la suerte de la paz con las Farc hasta la posibilidad de una muerte trágica que convertiría a Santrich en un mártir

Guatemala

17 mil personas se han salvado de morir de manera violenta en los últimos ocho años como consecuencia del descenso en las cifras de homicidios registradas a partir de septiembre de 2009. El fenómeno, sin embargo, registra una preocupante desigualdad

Both groups have historically fought mining and hydroelectric projects that threaten their areas. They also fight for land rights and have accused powerful forces of pushing indigenous farmers off their lands

Mexico

Dos jueces federales, uno en Ciudad de México y otra en el estado de Guanajuato, concedieron amparos en contra de la Ley de Seguridad Interior al considerarla inconstitucional

Detrás de las cifras de muertos y desaparecidos en Chilapa, Guerrero, hay un drama, una tragedia alimentada por la complicidad de las autoridades

Nicaragua

Representante de la institución asume compromiso ante dirigentes del sector productivo de Nicaragua

El Gobierno accede a que organismo de la OEA venga al país a “observar la situación de los derechos humanos”

Venezuela

In a recent study by Meganalisis, a Venezuelan polling firm, 70 percent of people said they wouldn’t vote in Sunday’s race and 77 percent said they didn’t trust the National Electoral Council

Western Hemisphere Regional

Over the 16 fiscal years ended last September, CNN has identified at least 564 deaths of people crossing illegally in the border region, above and beyond the Border Patrol’s tally of 5,984

CBP and DOJ guidance also allow border patrol agents to profile under certain conditions—a remarkable fact given that 72 percent of the U.S. minority population lives in the 100-mile zone

Sessions has stepped into the immigration system in an unprecedented manner: giving himself and his office the ability to review, and rewrite, cases that could set precedents for a large share of the hundreds of thousands of immigrants with pending immigration court cases