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Thursday, June 2, 2016 - 06:23
The US Drug Enforcement Administration is reported to be investigating top Fujimorista politician and financier Joaquín Ramírez for allegedly cleaning $15 million for Keiko Fujimori's previous, narrowly-failed presidential bid in 2011.
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 - 06:30
During the last decade of extreme violence associated with Mexico's drug wars, Mexicans have become used to the discovery and exhumation of clandestine graves filled with victims of the horror. This month, the authorities are digging up a shady grave with a difference — the corpses were put there by the government.
Friday, May 27, 2016 - 06:49
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has warned that it is in the middle of a "severe financial crisis" that will require drastic cuts, which will heavily impact its ability to attend to victims across the continent.
Thursday, May 26, 2016 - 05:09
Carmelo Ramírez Morales never imagined a life without obstacles when he enrolled in the Ayotzinapa college for rural teachers in Mexico's beleaguered southern state of Guerrero. But he did not expect that two years later he would be seeking political asylum in the United States after surviving a police attack that killed three fellow students and disappeared another 43.
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 - 07:08
Violent protests in Chile left one person dead on Saturday as President Michelle Bachelet delivered her annual State of the Nation report to Congress. Some demonstrators could be seen throwing rocks and other debris as police tried to use a vehicle equipped with a water cannon to extinguish the blaze.
Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - 06:10
The US pours around $1.3 billion into the Egyptian military each year, financing its massive arsenal of US-made weapons: F-16s, Apache helicopters, M1A1 tanks, and a flood of small arms, missiles, and equipment. But the State Department and the Department of Defense don't have a fully functioning systems to track the flow of weapons.
Monday, May 9, 2016 - 07:34
An agreement reached in October 2015 promised the sharing of information between the FARC and the government in order to expedite the search for Colombia's missing dead. They also announced the formation of a special search unit once a final accord is reached.
Tuesday, May 3, 2016 - 06:55
"Mexico has not had a political or security structure that limits, or breaks down criminal organizations," says Guillermo Valdés, former head of the Mexican intelligence service, who says the state has instead implemented a "schizophrenic policy" that mixes periodic crackdowns with tolerance.
Wednesday, April 27, 2016 - 08:38
El Salvador's top human rights official has said that police and soldiers executed members of the country's street gangs and then pretended that they had died in gunfights that never took place. Human Rights Ombudsman David Morales said he had reached these conclusions after a nine-month investigation of two incidents last year.
Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 07:09
For the past decade British intelligence has systematically co-operated with US and Yemeni agencies in the covert war against al-Qaeda in Yemen, a VICE News investigation can reveal.