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Honduras Suspends Constitutional Rights in Crackdown on Organized Crime

Xiomara Castro enacted a state of exception, suspending some constitutional rights in Honduras’s two largest cities, Tegucigalpa & San Pedro Sula.

Today’s featured artist is Bobby Rodriguez from the US with his band La Compañia with the song “Days of Wine and Roses” (1980).

They stepped down in 2015, accused of benefiting from a customs graft scheme known as “La Linea” which stole some $3.5 million in state money.

Immediately, the Armed Forces and the National Police, in a joint communique, disengaged themselves from the presidential announcement

Rodrigo Chaves’ government argues that the measures will prevent the refugee system from being misused by economic migrants

On November 28, two unidentified men on a motorcycle shot and killed Córdoba while he was on a reporting trip in the department of Nariño.

Today’s featured artist is Nana Vasconcelos from Brazil with the song “Mundo Verde” from the album “Fragments” (1997).

Asylum seekers will no longer be allowed to leave Costa Rica, neither to their country of origin nor to other destinations.

In a final editorial written from his prison cell, the paper’s founder, said, “It’s been 30 years of struggle against corruption & impunity.

Claudia Camila from Venezuela took our photo of the day: “The Plathinl Flower”, in Caracas, Venezuela.