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A Federal Judge in Argentina has ruled that the country’s Navy should be prohibited from “purging” or “shredding” documents stored in its general archive. The ruling comes amid steps taken by President Javier Milei’s government to minimize the historical significance of Argentina’s brutal military dictatorship, which lasted from 1976 until 1983 and resulted in the…
Chile accused President Nicolás Maduro’s second-in-command, Diosdado Cabello, of giving the order to kill a dissident in Santiago last year. The hit was allegedly carried out by a transnational Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua. On January 23, Attorney General Ángel Valencia announced that a protected witness had told investigators that Cabello, Venezuela’s current Interior Minister,…
Medellín, Colombia — After years of demands to search for those forcibly disappeared in Medellin’s La Escombrera landfill, Colombia’s transitional justice body, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), has officially announced it is the site of a mass grave. With four bodies found so far, and many more thought to be buried at the site…
Medellín, Colombia – In a landmark declaration Thursday, Colombia’s transitional justice body, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), stated unequivocally that Medellín’s La Escombrera landfill is the site of a mass grave. For decades, family members of people missing from the historically embattled Comuna 13 district have claimed that their relatives were buried beneath refuse…
Espacio Público, an NGO from Venezuela, announced that its director, Carlos Correa, was released from detention in the early hours of January 16. Correa, a prominent journalist and human rights activist, had been taken by unidentified hooded men on January 7, in what was qualified by Espacio Público as a “forced disappearance.” Announcing his release…
Mexico City, Mexico – Amazon Web Services (AWS), a United States-based subsidiary of e-commerce giant Amazon, on Monday announced a USD $5 billion investment to build a “state of the art” data center in Mexico. The investment was announced during President Claudia Sheinbaum’s routine press conference, where an Amazon delegation accompanied top Mexican government officials…
Guest author: Mark Vickers, Executive Vice President and Head of International Logistics, Reliance Partners. For casual observers, Mexico’s economy may seem to be facing unprecedented uncertainty. But, within the logistics sector there seems to be unshakable confidence that in spite of the recent spike in short-term turbulence, the “nearshoring” trend is here to stay. Executives…
Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro over the weekend made controversial statements proposing to “liberate” Puerto Rico using Brazilian troops. In reference to United States President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial comments about taking control of the Panama Canal, Greenland and Canada, Maduro said, “Just as the North has an agenda of colonization, we have an agenda of liberation.”…
The celebrated Colombian scientist Manuel Elkin Patarroyo passed away on January 9 in the country’s capital city, Bogotá, the National University confirmed. The scientist, who held degrees in medicine from Colombia’s National University, and Immunology and Virology from Yale University, was 78 years old. In conversation with Colombian newspaper Semana, Patarroyo’s son explained that his…
Mexico City, Mexico — Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for a third term as president of Venezuela on Friday, following an election in July that was deemed fraudulent by his political opposition and international electoral observers. Across Latin America, leaders, from the left and right of the political spectrum, were divided between diplomacy and disavowal….
