Crime
After Maduro’s capture, armed paramilitary groups patrol Caracas, search phones and restrict press
ADN América spoke with a Venezuelan man in Caracas who was held for several hours after armed groups searched his mobile phone.
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Mexican diver decapitated by great white shark in first fatal attack of 2023
While diving for mollusks, Lopez encountered a 19-foot-long great white shark who bit his head and tore it off completely
Politics
Peru presidential elections could be held later this year, says president
After Boluarte assumed the presidency, however, protests broke out throughout the country demanding new elections, a change to the constitution, and her removal from office
Crime
Leaked database reveals large-scale abuses in Salvadoran prisons
“This leaked database points to serious human rights violations committed during the state of emergency,” said the Human Rights Watch
Crime
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
