Human Rights
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 00:00
Mexico's security forces are committing widespread human rights violations such as torture and forced disappearances in their battle against drug cartels, a report by Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 00:00
In its report, New York-based Human Rights Watch documents 234 cases which the group says represent serious abuse by U.S.-trained marines and other security forces in several Mexican states.
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 00:00
Human rights activists accused Mexico's military and police Wednesday of engaging in widespread torture, including the use of cattle prods and waterboarding, in President Felipe Calderon’s U.S.-backed war against crime mafias and drug cartels.
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 00:00
Mexican police found the decapitated body of a man left in the border city of Nuevo Laredo Wednesday at the same monument where the corpse of a woman purportedly killed in retaliation for her postings on an anti-crime website had been left previously, aut
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 00:00
Now a five-day mission by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has found that matters have reached a critical point. It discovered "a bitter conflict between private media professionals and the government and media favou
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 00:00
Two oil refineries in Colombia were rocked Wednesday by protests and clashes between workers and riot police, the latest episode in a recent wave of labor conflicts in the country's booming oil sector.
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 00:00
Fifteen protesting oil workers were injured Wednesday in clashes with riot police outside two refineries operated by Colombian state oil company Ecopetrol, union officials said.
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 00:00
A generation ago, high in the Cuchumatanes mountains, a tough military officer known as Major Tito was a commander during a brutal period of Guatemala's civil war.
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 00:00
Mexico's military and police have committed widespread human rights violations in efforts to combat organized crime, virtually none of which are being adequately investigated.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 00:00
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