The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez Human Rights Center (Center Prodh) released a new report today on human rights violations in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The report, "Abused and Afraid in Ciudad Juarez: An Analysis of Human Rights Violations by the...
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Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa a little while ago (source: Diario Hoy Flickr page)
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UPDATE 10:30 PM EDT:Soldiers...
If you write an e-mail to a leader of Colombia’s FARC guerrilla group telling him, “It’s in your political interest to release all of your hostages,” did you just commit a crime? Did you offer advice – construed as “material support” – to a terrorist group?
The answer to that question could be “yes,” both in Colombia and the United States.
The issue came up on Monday in Colombia, when the country’s inspector-general (Procurador), Alejandro Ordóñez, abruptly...
Public security in Mexico has deteriorated to the point at which, on Sept. 19, the El Diario de Juárez newspaper published a front-page editorial calling out to drug traffickers for guidance in reporting. Titling it “What do you want from us?” El Diario printed the editorial amid increased violence against journalists. To see an English translation of the editorial,
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Juan Manuel Santos, at the time Colombia’s minister of defense, poses with then-armed forces chief Gen. Freddy Padilla in February 2009. At the time Colombia’s military, in an earlier |