Latin America News Dispatch

Carlos Alvarado Quesada won handily in Sunday’s run-off, with more than 60 percent of the vote.

Although this was one of the worst jail tragedies in Venezuela’s history, the country has seen similar cases in recent years.

At least six members of the group were soldiers during a 1991 military coup and once had their assets frozen by the U.S. for helping overthrow Haiti’s first democratically elected president.

The White House said on Tuesday that it hadn’t made the decision to include the question, but that it supported it.

The estimated $25 billion border wall got only $1.6 billion in funding, enough for some 33 miles of fencing or wall.

Speaking with Istoé magazine last week, Temer said “it would be cowardly not to be a candidate.”

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski maintains he is innocent both of the corruption allegations that prompted the impeachment procedure and of the vote-buying accusations from this week.

Footage leaked by right-wing opposition party Popular Force allegedly showed Kuczynzki’s allies trying to buy the vote of an opposition lawmaker to avoid impeachment.

Lonnie Swartz has pleaded not guilty in the murder of José Antonio Elena Rodríguez, who was 16 at the time of his death.

The U.S. said the currency was created to bypass the financial sanctions slapped unto the cash-stripped South American country.

Franco, 38, was a feminist lesbian Black woman and her murder is seen as a blow to Brazilian women’s rights activists and LGBTQ activists.  

Marielle Franco started her career as a human rights advocate before entering politics as a member of the left-leaning Socialism and Liberty Party.

An uprising in the prison, where 5,000 men and women are incarcerated, started 10 days ago.

Protests were held in San Diego, where the prototypes are displayed, and in Tijuana, the closest city on the Mexican side.

A report found that 16 of those killed, including two children, were shot dead by security forces and that the actions by the military police “may amount to extra-judicial killings.”

Having headed an upset “No” campaign against the 2016 FARC peace referendum, Senator Álvaro Uribe was the leading vote-getter among all legislative candidates.

The 11 countries, which together add up to 13 percent of the global economy, include Chile, Peru, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and others.

Also known as “the baby theft general,” Bignone was the last head of state of Argentina’s brutal 7-year dictatorship that ended in 1983.

Emilio Gutiérrez Soto fled to the U.S. and sought asylum with his son in June 2008, after learning that a military officer had ordered his killing due to his reporting.

Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís labelled the pact as “crucial for the very survival of our species.”

The murder of the environmental and indigenous rights activist sparked worldwide outrage and placed pressure on the Honduran government.