El Salvador’s Politics of Perpetual Violence
What’s the issue? After fifteen years of failed security policies, the government of El Salvador and criminal gangs are deadlocked in an...
International Crisis Group 1
Dec 19, 2017
New Report: El Salvador's Politics of Perpetual Violence
El Salvador, a small country in the isthmus of Central America, is wracked by an implacable strain of gang warfare. Exceptionally intense...
International Crisis Group 1
Dec 19, 2017
Do the Numbers Lie? Mistrust and Military Lockdown after Honduras’ Disputed Poll
Honduras has entered a political crisis that is turning increasingly violent following the disputed results of the 26 November general...
International Crisis Group 1
Dec 4, 2017
Watch List 2017 – Third Update
Undocumented Migration from the Northern Triangle of Central America Flows of undocumented migrants from Central America, through Mexico...
International Crisis Group 1
Oct 18, 2017
Second Genocide Trial of Guatemala's Former Dictator Rios Montt
Efrain Rios Montt stands during a pause in a hearing at the Supreme Court of Justice in Guatemala City, November 19, 2013. | Photo:...
Telesur
Oct 12, 2017
UNESCO and Yahad-In Unum join forces on Holocaust and genocide education
UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and the Founder and President of Yahad-In Unum(link is external), Father Patrick Desbois, have...
Genocide Watch
Sep 22, 2017
Guatemala Stumbles in Central America’s Anti-corruption Fight
What is happening in Guatemala? A remarkable and hopeful two-year interlude in one of Central America’s most corrupt countries may now be...
International Crisis Group 1
Sep 1, 2017
Why did 41 girls die at a Guatemalan youth shelter?
Accusations of abuse and neglect have come to light after a fire at a state-funded youth shelter killed 41 girls. On March 10, a funeral...
Al Jazeera
Apr 18, 2017
Girls killed in shelter fire are the latest victims of Guatemala’s war on women
On the morning of March 8 2016, while women around the world were preparing to observe International Women’s Day with a global strike, 43...
The Conversation
Mar 26, 2017
Rape, abuse, death of girls at Guatemala home burned by fire
ILE - In this March 17, 2017 file photo, Shirley Palencia weeps during the burial service for 17-year-old sister Kimberly Palencia Ortiz,...
Associated Press 1
Mar 22, 2017
35 Girls Killed in Guatemala Fire May Have Been Locked In
Relatives waited Thursday at a morgue in Guatemala City to learn the names of girls who died in the blaze at the children’s home....
New York Times 1
Mar 9, 2017
Inside Nicaragua's bloody conflict over indigenous land
By Mira Galanova An armed Miskito patrols the banks of the Coco River. Settlers have occupied Miskito-owned farms, preventing the...
Al Jazeera
Mar 2, 2017
