Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes on Monday apologized for the massacre of 936 civilians in the town of El Mazote during a 1981 army counterinsurgency operation. He acknowledged the government’s responsibility for the killings and referred to the operation as “the largest massacre of civilians in the contemporary history of Latin America.” Government soldiers entered El Mazote on Dec. 11, [...]
Police in Mexico have arrested an alleged member of the Zetas drug cartel for masterminding a casino fire that killed 52 people in the northern city of Monterrey, authorities said Friday. Jorge Domene, security agency spokesman for Nuevo Leon state, said Baltazar Saucedo Estrada is the lead hitman who was sought on a US$1,000,000 reward [...]
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Mexican authorities said Wednesday that a surviving son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and three other relatives planned to enter Mexico under false names and hide at a Pacific coast resort. The plan to smuggle in al-Saadi Gadhafi allegedly involved two Mexicans, a Canadian and a Danish suspect, all of whom have been arrested [...]
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One of only two surviving leaders of the Shining Path guerrilla group has announced that his insurgents will halt attacks, and called for a truce to begin peace negotiations with the Peruvian government. Known by his war name of Comrade Artemio, Jose Flores Hala told journalists gathered in his jungle hideout Friday he “isn’t going [...]
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The Honduran legislature decided this week to deploy the army against Mexican drug cartels, hoping to put the brake on growing violence in the most murderous country on the planet. Lawmakers voted by an overwhelming majority to follow the model used by Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who launched a military campaign against powerful drug gangs after [...]
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Mexican activists have filed a war-crimes complaint against President Felipe Calderón at the International Criminal Court, claiming some 470 cases of human rights violations by the army or police in their war on that nation’s drug cartels. Attorney Netzai Sandoval said that Mexican drug lords have also committed crimes against humanity in the conflict, which has cost 35,000 [...]
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Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff on Friday approved the formation of a Truth Commission to investigate human rights abuses committed during and prior to that nation’s military dictatorship, which ran from 1964 to 1985. The creation of the seven member commission is the strongest step yet taken by the Brazilian government to resolve the many incidents of violence [...]
On Monday Colombia shut down a controversial intelligence center for surveillance and illegal interception of communications to magistrates, journalists and politicians who opposed the administration of ex-president Alvaro Uribe. President Juan Manuel Santos said that responsibilities of the Administrative Security Department (ASD) will be taken over by other agencies like the Ministry of Foreign Relations, the [...]
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An online video was released this week threatening Mexico’s Zetas drug cartel with public exposure of their friends in the police and media, unless the group frees a kidnapped member of the international hacker movement known as “Anonymous.” The YouTube message signed by Anonymous “Veracruz, Mexico and the world,” said it is “tired of the [...]
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According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peruvian “disappearance” victims in the conflict that raged there from 1980 to 2000 are double the number previously calculated by that nation’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 2003. Rafael Barrantes, Red Cross director for that agency’s Disappeared Persons Program, said that records from the Peruvian [...]
