AP Photo by Ariana Cubillos. Caption: “In this May 22, 2017 file photo, a doctor embraces Bolivarian National Guard during an anti-government protest by doctors in Caracas, Venezuela. Soldiers’ families suffers along with protesters who skip meals while watching their money become worthless. Some are unsure whether to blame the government or the opposition for the crisis, and what soldiers decide in the coming months could decide the country’s fate.”

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June 9, 2017

Brazil

Over the last 15 years, Brazil has seen the highest number of killings of environmental and land defenders of any country

Brazil, Western Hemisphere Regional

Structured Operations doled out some $788 million in bribes in Brazil and 11 other countries, securing more than 100 contracts that generated $3.3 billion of profit

Colombia

Another 30 percent of weaponry will be handed in on June 14 and the remaining 40 percent on June 20

Perhaps nowhere else in the country are the challenges of a post-conflict Colombia more evident, and perhaps no other part of the world is more indicative of how an economy can be fueled by the production and trafficking of cocaine

In terms of the effectiveness of the methods used, the minister clarified that “aerial spraying is 33 percent effective”

Se trata del general del Ejército Luis Felipe Montoya, quien se viene capacitando en el tema de negociación con países aliados de este proceso de paz

Pese a la insistencia de Afrodes sobre la necesidad de reforzar los esquemas de seguridad de sus dirigentes, las solicitudes fueron atendidas a medias

Cuba

Trading the integrity of this country for a political shift on Cuba policy is disgraceful

Mexico

High on the agenda during her two-day state visit to Mexico will be their mutual political dilemma: President Trump

En los ocho ganó Morena y el PRI tuvo una caída de 64 por ciento con respecto a 2011

Guatemala, Mexico

Approximately 400 people from rural Guatemala are stranded at the Mexico-Guatemala border in temporary shelters and tents, without adequate access to water, food, or medical supplies, after a Guatemalan court order was executed to evict them

Venezuela

Ortega Diaz’s remarks were her strongest repudiation yet of Maduro’s effort to rewrite the nation’s constitution, an act she said would destroy the legacy of the late President Hugo Chavez

Soldiers’ families suffers along with protesters who skip meals while watching their money become worthless. Some are unsure whether to blame the government or the opposition for the crisis, and what soldiers decide in the coming months could decide the country’s fate