Christian Poveda, a French film-maker who wrote a documentary about the Mara 18 gang in El Salvador, was found shot dead at Tonacatepeque, near the country’s capital.
UN Humanitarian Coordinator Maxwell Gaylard said Israel’s two-year-old blockade of the Gaza Strip is causing “a severe and protracted denial of human dignity.”
A new report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime warns of growing links between drug lords and the Taliban insurgency.
Leaders of the resistance against the coup in Honduras are debating whether to boycott the November elections if constitutional order is not restored by then.
Honduran business elites are divided on whether to keep backing the coup regime as fears grow that the country’s participation in CAFTA will be suspended.
Honduran economist Alcides Hernández warns that if sanctions are imposed on the coup regime, “a country as poor as ours would quickly buckle.”
Indigenous leaders in Peru’s Cordillera del Cóndor issued a statement giving the Dorato mining company 15 days to quit the territory.
Several were injured when the Peruvian village of Cocachacra exploded into protest at an environmental hearing on a proposed copper mine.
Six years after the Truth Commission report on Peru’s “dirty war,” Defense Minister Rafael Rey called the findings “false and calumnious.”
Two Peruvian army troops and four presumed narco-senderistas were killed in a shoot-out in the Apurimac Valley.
Peru issued a formal request to Interpol for the capture of Amazon indigenous leaders who have taken asylum in Nicaragua.
The UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination called for Peru to open an “exhaustive investigation” into the Bagua massacre.
