Latin America News Dispatch

Mario Estrada was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States.

Opposition leaders said Bukele’s actions created a constitutional crisis.

Police killed Adriano Magalhaes da Nobrega during a shootout in north-east Brazil.

El Salvador is one of three Central American countries that signed the Asylum Cooperative Agreement to receive asylum seekers from the U.S.

A report concluded that at least 138 Salvadoran deportees were killed by state security forces, death squads, gangs, and former partners, while another 70 were subjected to sexual violence, torture, and extortions.

The event gave the Venezuelan National Assembly leader renewed visibility as his efforts to assume power in Venezuela have remained stagnant.

CHICAGO (AP) — Activist Hoda Katebi rarely takes a break from organizing. As tensions between the U.S. and Iran escalated in recent weeks, she became even busier.

The number of female victims in 2019 increased by 2.5% from 2018, according to the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNP).

In the middle of the Amazon, in the Brazilian city of Manaus, sits the only LGBTQ+ refugee centre in Latin America: Casa Miga.

The deaths appear to follow a pattern of killings and threats targeting environmental defenders in Mexico and throughout the region.

The development comes in the context of Aída Merlano, a former Colombian senator, who had been sentenced to 15 years in prison for vote-buying, and fled to Venezuela.

At least 32 percent of girls in Ecuador under the age of 14 have reported sexual assault while at school.

No injuries or heavy damage have been reported. Officials announced no threat of future tsunamis.

As many as four planes of deportees a day have departed Mexico for Honduras.

Polls ahead of the vote suggested that fewer than one-third of voters had chosen a candidate, and one-fifth were planning to write in their choices or turn in blank ballots in protest.

Protests have been mounting against the current Puerto Rican government following a 6.4 magnitude earthquake.

The Economist’s Intelligence Unit creates the report annually by analyzing each country’s electoral process, civil liberties and political participation.

Prosecutors did not bring any formal charges against Greenwald, and federal police in Brazil said they found no wrongdoing on Greenwald’s part.

The State Department found that in Chile almost 10 percent of all tweets supporting the October protests originated from accounts linked to Russia.

The organizatons are filing the lawsuit to challenge the agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras that allows the Trump administration to send migrants seeking asylum in the United States back to Central America.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, almost 1,300 earthquakes have shaken the island since the end of last year.