Judicial Reform
Thursday, November 29, 2012 - 00:00
Brazil's Supreme Court has sentenced the last 3 of 25 defendants convicted on charges involving a congressional cash-for-votes scheme.
Thursday, November 29, 2012 - 00:00
La Justicia uruguaya presento hoy una serie de medidas que seran de obligado cumplimiento para sus funcionarios que buscan garantizar la defensa ante los tribunales de las mujeres y los ninos victimas de violencia domestica y de genero.
Thursday, November 29, 2012 - 00:00
Colombia has announced it no longer recognises the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, in The Hague.
Thursday, November 29, 2012 - 00:00
The "death flights" were among the more macabre innovations of Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - 00:00
A court in Argentina is beginning hearings in the largest trial of crimes committed during the so-called "Dirty War" between 1976 and 1983.
Monday, November 26, 2012 - 00:00
Garcia-Ramirez admitted that he was an identity broker in the conspiracy and operated in Illinois. Garcia-Ramirez is the fourth defendant to be sentenced in this case.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 - 00:00
Los rehenes fueron liberados este martes a cambio de mejoras en las condiciones penitenciarias y de la promesa de investigar los abusos que denunciaban. La Policia insiste en que la MS-13 es responsable del motin, pero el gobierno responsabilizo al carte
Monday, November 19, 2012 - 00:00
Salinas said the Mexican government had charged seven officials, including three members of his unit, with passing information on government raids and investigations to the Sinaloa cartel of Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman.
Monday, November 12, 2012 - 00:00
The Mexican Supreme Court recently ruled that Moreno, his officers and two dozen of his soldiers should be tried for human rights crimes in a civilian court.
Monday, November 12, 2012 - 00:00
Over the past several years, some military officers have been held to account for their responsibility for past human rights abuses and in 2011, the then Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom publicly apologized for Carlos Cuevas' disappearance.