Mexico
Mexico: protest caravan for missing students
A "Caravan for Memory and Hope" departed from Guerrero state toward Mexico City to demand justice in the case of the 43 "disappeared" college students.
Tag: narco wars
Watching the Shadows
Obama’s final year: a CounterVortex scorecard
With a Trump despotism looming, CounterVortex offers its final assessment of Barack Obama's record in addressing the oppressive legacy of the Global War on Terrorism.
The Andes
Mass prisoner pardon in Bolivia
President Evo Morales on Christmas Eve pardoned and released 1,800 prisoners—part of his ongoing effort to curtail dangerous overcrowding in Bolivia's penal system.
Southeast Asia
Duterte makes good on threat to kill journalists?
The Philippines' ultra-hardline President Rodrigo Duterte may be starting to follow through on his threats to kill journalists and human rights activists.
The Andes
FARC narco-factions refuse to lay down arms
FARC leaders admit that five regional commanders—those most co-opted by the narco trade—are refusing to lay down arms, and have been expelled from the movement.
Mexico
Mexico: vigilantes and narcos in hostage swap
The ongoing regional war in Mexico's Guerrero state between narco gangs and the anti-narco "community police" militia movement resulted in a hostage stand-off.
Southeast Asia
Duterte boasts of personally killing drug suspects
The Philippines' ultra-hardline President Rodrigo Duterte—facing international outrage for his bloody anti-drug crackdown—boasted that he has "personally" killed suspects.
North America
Trump: drug war general to Homeland Security
Gen. John Kelly, Trump's choice for Homeland Security secretary, is ex-chief of the Pentagon's Southern Command who clashed with Obama over his hardline views.
Southeast Asia
Duterte says Trump approves bloody drug war
The Philippines' ultra-hardline President Duterte boasted that Donald Trump has endorsed his bloody anti-drug crackdown—which has claimed an estimated 3,000 lives.
The Andes
Colombia: unrelenting terror against social leaders
Despite advances for the peace process with the FARC rebels, the wave of assassinations of social leaders across Colombia by presumed paramilitary hitmen is unabated.
Southeast Asia
Duterte threatens to kill human rights activists
Accused of carrying out 3,000 extrajudicial executions, the Philippines' ultra-hardline President Duterte now threatens to kill human rights activists who dare to complain about it.
The Andes
Peru: new effort against Shining Path remnants
Peru's new defense minister, Jorge Nieto Montesinos, announced that he will focus on wiping out remnant Shining Path guerillas operating in the country's main coca-producing region.