Guatemalan Ministry of Defense photo at Diálogo. Caption: “In late June 2020, Guatemalan Army and National Civil Police personnel found three coca crops in a jungle area of Petén department, Guatemala.”

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September 4, 2020

Western Hemisphere Regional

Mr. Claver-Carone is a political appointee in the Trump White House whose controversial nomination would break a longstanding precedent that a Latin American serves as president of the IDB

Colombia

El Centro de Derechos Reproductivos y la Escuela de Salud Pública de la Universidad del Valle presentan una investigación que revela que la exposición al glifosato puede tener impactos negativos en la salud reproductiva de las personas

A Gabriel Jaimes Durán Estados Unidos le revocó la visa justo después de que Hernando Gómez Bustamante, un poderoso narcotraficante del cartel del norte del Valle conocido como Rasguño, declarara sobre el caso de Álvaro Gómez

InSight Crime carried out extensive research across 14 departments to see what forms of criminal governance have taken shape across Colombia, and what this might mean for the future

El Salvador

En 14 de las visitas participaron encapuchados que entraron a cárceles sin identificarse. Al menos uno de esos visitantes era un líder pandillero en libertad

The rare rebuke from the Trump administration — one of Bukele’s biggest boosters — came in a May 29 letter to an aide of the president from Thomas Kelly, acting vice president of the Millennium Challenge Corporation

Guatemala

On June 25, Guatemalan Army personnel found coca crops and a lab in a hard-to-reach jungle area of Petén

Honduras

El abogado y exfiscal hondureño Jari Dixon Herrera indicó este jueves que las Fuerzas Armadas no sólo están involucradas en narcotráfico sino en gigantescos casos de corrupción

Mexico

Animal Político solicitó a la Fiscalía General de la República (FGR) información oficial sobre las circunstancias del fallecimiento de la funcionaria, pero hasta el momento de esta publicación no se ha proporcionado información

Lo cierto es que así como en Morelos el narcotráfico y otras modalidades del crimen organizado están impunes –como lo está todo en el país, por desgracia

La lucha tenaz de Inés y Valentina iluminó el camino espinoso de la justicia para las mujeres sobrevivientes de tortura sexual

Nicaragua

As long as the business leadership isn’t accountable for its coexistence with the dictatorship, we will have no future

U.S.-Mexico Border

Nogales residents say the city is struggling amid the pandemic and after years of Trump painting the area as a ‘war zone’

Hundreds of migrant children have been held in hotels and guarded by government contractors in recent months as part of a secretive new system that advocates warn puts kids in danger

About 30 minors a day were handed over to migrant shelters run by the Department of Health and Human Services in recent weeks, the people said, compared with about six a day a month ago

Venezuela

Relatives of at least 259 jailed Venezuelan police and military officers are clamoring for their release, upset that none of them were included on the list of 110 people pardoned by President Nicolas Maduro’s government

Moves this week by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to recast his authoritarian image are succeeding in what might be their principal aim: dividing the U.S.-backed opposition