On April 28, 2012, journalist Regina Martínez was found strangled in the bathroom of her home in Xalapa, capital of the Mexican state of Veracruz. Martínez was a renowned journalist with the Mexican weekly magazine Proceso, which for the past… Read moreViolence and impunity in Xalapa
Turkey will build a 2.5-kilometer wall along the Cilvegözü post on the border with Syria, near where a twin bomb attack killed 51 and wounded more than 100 earlier this month.
World War 4 Report has installed a new anti-spam program and re-enabled comments. Now we have to pay for it. The tally just jumped to $120. So $880 to go. Who’s next?
President Obama’s speech outlining plans to restrict drone strikes and renew efforts to close Guantánamo Bay did little more than reiterate existing policy.
A US judge ruled that the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office illegally engaged in racial profiling, and prohibited deputies from using race as a factor in law-enforcement.
The leader of Argentina’s 1976 coup and the 1976-1983 “dirty war” has died in prison—the former US officials who covered up his atrocities are still free.
Five former South American dictators are in prison for crimes committed under their regimes; Peru's Morales Bermúdez and Haiti's Jean-Claude Duvalier also face charges.
Rio relocates thousands for the World Cup and the Olympics; activists and social scientists say the city’s just trying to push poorer residents off valuable real estate.
Greenpeace activists scaled a 104-meter monument to bring attention to plans by Monsanto and other companies for drastically expanding the use of transgenic corn in Mexico.
Survivors and rights advocates hugged each other when the ex-dictator was convicted of genocide, but the current president must be thinking about his own role in the civil war.
President Pérez Molina was forced to give up his effort to contain indigenous protests against a Canadian-owned silver mine by suspending constitutional rights.
Activists have ended their most recent occupation of what is to be the world’s third-largest dam, while the center-left government tries to downplay the protests.
