Here are links to a few of this week’s reports from National Public Radio, the Associated Press (two in Spanish as well as English), and Reuters; others are accessible by clicking on their initials below. — MCM
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Most of the 177 environmental activists killed last year were in Latin America. Reported by Carrie Kahn | NPR Global Witness says 177 environmental activists were killed in 2022, and the majority were murdered in Latin America. Click HERE to listen and read to report, and HERE for a link to Global Witness.
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Guatemala President-elect suspends transition after agents raid election facilities, open vote boxes, by Sonia Pérez D. | AP GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arévalo said Tuesday he was temporarily suspending the transition process and called for the resignation of the attorney general following raids on electoral facilities during which government agents opened boxes of votes and photographed their contents in what experts called an unprecedented violation of the law. Arévalo said he had notified outgoing President Alejandro Giammattei and would only return to the process . . . READ MORE . . .
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El presidente electo de Guatemala rompe diálogo con gobierno saliente y suspende transición, por Sonia Pérez D. | Agencia AP CIUDAD DE GUATEMALA — El presidente electo de Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, rompió el diálogo el martes con el gobierno saliente al anunciar que suspende el proceso administrativo de transición de poder, tras la última arremetida de la fiscalía con el allanamiento a dos sedes de Tribunal Supremo Electoral y la revisión de cajas con votos. Arévalo pidió la renuncia de la fiscal general Consuelo Porras, así como del . . . LEA MÁS . . .
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UN says Nicaragua’s human rights violations and persecution of dissidents are on the rise, by Gabriela Selser | AP MEXICO CITY — Nicaragua has increased human rights violations and persecution of the opposition as it ratchets up its efforts to stifle dissent, a United Nations group of experts monitoring the country said Tuesday. The Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua told the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, that the government continues increasing pressure on human rights defenders to force them to leave the . . . READ MORE . . .
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El Chapo’s wife released from U.S. custody after completing 3-year prison sentence. From AP. The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was released from federal custody on Wednesday after completing a three-year sentence for helping him run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire, the federal Bureau of Prisons said. Emma Coronel Aispuro, who pleaded guilty in 2021 to three federal offenses as part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors, had been moved from a Texas prison to a California halfway house prior to her release. She will now serve . . . READ MORE . . .
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Emma Coronel, esposa del “Chapo”, queda en libertad tras cumplir condena en EEUU. De AP. La esposa del narcotraficante mexicano Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán quedó en libertad tras purgar una condena de tres años por ayudarlo a manejar su imperio criminal multimillonario, informó la Agencia Federal de Prisiones de Estados Unidos. Emma Coronel Aispuro, quien en 2021 se declaró culpable de tres delitos federales como parte de un acuerdo con la fiscalía, había sido trasladada de una prisión en Texas a un centro de rehabilitación en California antes de su liberación. Le resta cumplir . . . LEA MÁS . . .
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Lula names two ministers from opposition to buttress congressional support, by Anthony Boadle | Reuters BRASILIA — Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva swore in two new ministers from center-right opposition parties on Wednesday, in a bid to increase congressional support for his minority leftist government. The move should help Lula pass his economic agenda, including tax hikes, political analysts said, but he still faces an uphill battle to get Brazil’s conservative-led legislature to . . . READ MORE . . .