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 [...]
Judicial authorities in Guatemala declared former president Oscar Mejia a fugitive this week, after ordering his arrest on charges of genocide during that country’s 36-year civil war. Mejia, 80, is sought for massacres committed in the Ixil, Quiche region when he served as military chief in 1982-1983, the bloodiest years under former dictator Efrain Rios [...]
A former agent for the Argentine navy known as “the Angel of Death” on Friday is claiming to be a victim of political persecution. Capt. Alfredo Astiz is being tried for taking part in the disappearance, torture and murder of two French nuns, a journalist and three founders of a human rights group that he [...]
The government of Mexico says it is investigating internet videos made by masked men who vow to exterminate the violent Zetas drug cartel, saying it rejects such vigilante methods. So far two videos have been released by a group possibly linked to the powerful Sinaloa cartel, which calls itself the “Mata Zetas,” or “Zeta Killers.” [...]
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The Venezuelan government announced Friday that a planned visit from Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been suspended while president Hugo Chavez recovers his “full health” after recent cancer treatment. Chavez, who returned from his fourth and last chemotherapy session in Cuba on Thursday, last week announced the visit would follow Ahmadinejad’s visit to the UN [...]
A U.S. judge has ordered Cuba to pay 2.8 billion dollars in compensation to a Cuban exile for “persecution, torture, pain and suffering.” The beneficiary, Gustavo Villoldo took part in the capture and execution of Ernesto Guevara alias “el Ché”. Miami-Dade County Court Judge Beatrice Butchko ruled August 19th that the “actions of the accused [...]
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