El Salvador extends emergency powers in gang crackdown
Measures enjoy widespread support, but rights groups say they have led to arbitrary arrests and prison overcrowding. El Salvador's gang...
Al Jazeera
Mar 17, 2023
Nicaragua's govt committed crimes against humanity: U.N.
Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega delivers a speech during an extraordinary session of the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba...
Genocide Watch
Mar 11, 2023
Nicaragua strips 94 political opponents of citizenship
Analysts, legal experts and human rights groups condemn the move, which they say violates international law. Supporters of President...
Al Jazeera
Mar 10, 2023
Guatemalans protest ban on presidential candidate
February 21, 2023 UATEMALA CITY (AP) — Thousands of people demonstrated in Guatemala Tuesday to protest a court’s decision not to allow...
Associated Press 1
Feb 25, 2023
Nicaragua strips 94 political opponents of citizenship
Analysts, legal experts and human rights groups condemn the move, which they say violates international law. Supporters of President...
Al Jazeera
Feb 16, 2023
El Salvador: Leaked Database Points to Large-Scale Abuses
Mass Due Process Violations, Overcrowding, Poor Prospects for Justice People arrested by police wait in zip tie handcuffs in the back of...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 1, 2023
Cuba Country Report 2022
Photo by Eva Marie UZCATEGUI / AFP The Spanish colonization of Cuba lasted for nearly 400 years, subjecting the Cuban population to...
Vivian Yellen
Dec 23, 2022
Human rights groups concerned about surveillance in El Salvador
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele speaks during a deployment ceremony for the Territorial Control plan and army officers' graduation...
Reuters
Jan 31, 2022
Genocide Watch: Panama
By: Barbara Labbate October 2021 Photo Credit: Erik Marciscano, La Estrella Panama's indigenous communities, which make up around 12% of...
Barbara Labbate
Oct 27, 2021
Guatemala: two ex-generals to be tried for genocide
GUATEMALA CITY, Aug 30 (Reuters) - A Guatemalan judge on Monday ordered two high-ranking ex-generals to stand trial on genocide charges...
Reuters
Aug 29, 2021
El Salvador's populist leader is defiant
5 July, 2021 | By Christopher Sherman In the narrow, gang-controlled alleys of the Las Palmas neighborhood, struggling Salvadorans are...
Associated Press 1
Jul 5, 2021
Guatemala’s painstaking search for the disappeared
By Jeff Abbott Search for and identification of remains of civil war disappeared provides hope for families, but challenges persist. San...
Al Jazeera
Jun 27, 2021
