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Mexican Media Workers Demand End to Impunity for Murderers

Members of the media took to the streets for a second round of massive protests in response to ongoing murders of Mexican journalists.

Environmental defenders from the community of Guapinol have been freed after the Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a case against them.

Xi Jinping’s government promises to carry out its first “cooperation” project in Nicaragua consisting of a “large housing project.”

Journalists in the region describe a bleak picture in terms of democratic issues. They see repeated patterns of authoritarianism & repression

In Costa Rica, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights heard oral arguments Wednesday in a historic case of an Indigenous community…

Heber Lopez, the director of the online news site NoticiasWeb, was shot and killed at his office in the southern state of Oaxaca on Thursday.

Meanwhile, Chilean president-elect Gabriel Boric, has condemned human rights violations in Nicaragua on repeated occasions…

Officials said the harsh terrain in the southern border can be life-threatening and that robots would reduce agents’ exposure to the hazards.

Fresh blocks on a handful of Venezuela’s few remaining independent news websites are a troubling sign of escalating press censorship…

With 87.7% of the votes counted, Figueres has 27.3% of the votes, while Chaves has 16.7%. There were 23 other candidates for president.