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VIDEO: Tourist beaten with stick for illegally climbing Mayan pyramid in Mexico
The tourist can be seen being taken away from the scene by two Mexican officials when a bystander begins to hit him with a stick
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Leader of Colombian criminal gang pleads guilty in U.S. federal courthouse
Dario Antonio Usuga, better known as Otoniel, was the leader of the violent “Clan del Golfo” drug trafficking organization and paramilitary group for more than nine years
Human Rights
Americans call for Los Angeles public defender wrongfully detained in Venezuela to be released, sent home
A group of Americans are coming together and calling for the release of Los Angeles Deputy Public Defender Eyvin Alexis Hernández who has been wrongfully detained by the Venezuelan Maduro regime
Human Rights
Venezuela's National Assembly approved reading of bill to regulate NGOs
Advocacy groups and activists fear that if the bill is passed into law, it will silence the NGOs in the country with new threats and intimidation
Politics
El Salvador repaid an $800 million bond maturing in January
El Salvador has faced significant pressure to demonstrate financial stability since President Nayib Bukele embarked on the adoption of bitcoin as legal tender in 2021
Technology
Mexico turns to artificial intelligence to track missing persons amid 110,000 disappearances
The program creates charts to demonstrate what connections there are between different missing persons to see if there’s a link with various suspected perpetrators in different locations, allowing investigators to get a visual as to what places may have higher frequencies of disappearances and which incidents may be more than coincidence
Politics
Former Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom dies from cancer at 71
Former Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom died on Monday at 71 years old from esophageal cancer
Human Rights
Colombia reports record number of activists killed in 2022
At least 215 human rights activists and social leaders—community, land, and environmental leaders, among others—were killed last year in Colombia
Crime
U.S. turns key suspect in mass student disappearance case over to Mexico
A former police supervisor, military commander and ex-attorney general all face charges in disappearance of 43 students
Politics
Pope Francis calls to end violence in Peru
"No to violence, regardless of where it originates. No more deaths," the Argentine pope said
Business
Brazil and Argentina planning to establish common currency
The proposal comes as Argentina continues to battle the highest inflation it has seen in over three decades and Brazil’s economy continues to slowly grow
