For today, links to reports from National Public Radio, the Associated Press, and Reuters; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (Click HERE and HERE or scroll further down for today’s earlier entries in this blog.) — MCM
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The runoff presidential election in Guatemala will be held this weekend. Reported by Michel Martin and Eyder Peralta | NPR Guatemalans vote in an election that could determine whether the country addresses long-running impunity for its elites or continues its descent into corruption and violence. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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Nicaraguan government seizes highly regarded university from Jesuits. From AP. MEXICO CITY — Nicaragua’s government has confiscated a prestigious Jesuit-run university alleging it was a “center of terrorism,” the college said Wednesday in announcing the latest in a series of actions by authorities against the Catholic Church and opposition figures. The University of Central America in Nicaragua, which was a hub for 2018 protests . . . READ MORE . . .
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Nicaragua judge orders seizure of top Jesuit-run university, by Ismael Lopez | Reuters A Nicaraguan judge has ordered the confiscation of all assets belonging to a prestigious Jesuit-run university, the college announced, as the government’s crackdown on Catholic clergy and church-affiliated institutions intensifies. In a letter dated Tuesday and addressed to the university community, the . . . READ MORE . . .
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Patrick Hamilton, ex-AP and Reuters photographer who covered Central American wars, dies at 74, by Susana Hayward | AP SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Patrick Hamilton, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War who covered civil wars in Central America as a photojournalist for The Associated Press and later worked at Reuters covering the first Gulf War in Iraq, has died after a long struggle with cancer. He died at age 74 Sunday at home in San Antonio. Hamilton’s experience in Vietnam served him well in Central America during the 1980s and then . . . READ MORE . . .