Elisabeth Malkin
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 - 06:21
A Guatemalan judge ordered former President Otto Pérez Molina on Tuesday to stand trial on charges of bribery, customs fraud and conspiracy, and returned him to detention.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015 - 06:04
Guatemala’s Congress voted on Tuesday to strip President Otto Pérez Molina of his immunity from prosecution, a unanimous decision that acknowledged the outpouring of citizen demands for an end to entrenched impunity.
Wednesday, August 12, 2015 - 06:10
In an offensive started at the beginning of the year — the latest front in a decades-long struggle to control crime — the police have pushed deep into the slums where gangs hold sway and three units of elite troops stand by to join the battle on the streets for the first time.
Monday, June 15, 2015 - 06:41
In Guatemala, angry citizens marched under pelting rain, undeterred. In Honduras, they carried torches at dusk. A wave of protests against corruption scandals that is sweeping across Latin America has reached Central America.
Monday, April 20, 2015 - 06:53
Mexican officials said Sunday that they had captured a leader of the Juárez Cartel, Jesús Salas Aguayo, the man in charge of the gang’s operations in Ciudad Juárez during a convulsion of violence that made the city one of the world’s most murderous
Friday, April 17, 2015 - 06:43
The United States government imposed sanctions on three leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha street gang on Thursday as part of a broader effort to crack down on the transnational gang, which is based in El Salvador and runs human trafficking and drug operations into the United States.
Thursday, May 29, 2014 - 08:17
The lawmakers argued that the government of President Juan Orlando Hernández has “adopted policies that threaten to make the human rights situation even worse” by promoting a militarized police force and using its army for domestic law enforcement
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 05:17
“Some of the actions of those in charge of making the selection are little short of amazing,” said Iván Velásquez, who heads a United Nations-backed commission of international lawyers, known by its Spanish acronym Cicig.
Monday, April 7, 2014 - 00:00
The likely election of the professor, Luis Guillermo Solis, signals a turn in Costa Rican politics away from the dominant National Liberation Party
Monday, April 7, 2014 - 00:00
The likely election of the professor, Luis Guillermo Solis, signals a turn in Costa Rican politics away from the dominant National Liberation Party.