June 11, 2024 from Havana( A 8new ghost is haunting the world: that of the rise of the extreme right and the rise of a fascism that we thought was banished to the history books. Endorsed at the ballot box, as they did almost a century ago, they do not hide to show their most … Read More
HEADLINE, Democracy Now! JUNE 03, 2024 In El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele was sworn in for a second term Saturday. El Salvador’s constitution limits presidents to serving just one five-year term, but a 2021 Supreme Court decision allowed the former businessman to run for reelection. Under Bukele’s plan to combat gangs, El Salvador has arrested … Read More
Author: Vicki Gass, LAWG On January 15, 2024,1 president-elect Bernardo Arévalo of the Semilla Party was inaugurated after five tense months since he was elected on August 20, 2023. Guatemalans from all sectors (led by the Indigenous communities), international non-governmental organizations like LAWG, and foreign governments mobilized to prevent corrupt public and private actors from overturning the … Read More
By Michael Fox on May 30, 2024 Bertha Oliva posing in front of the photos of some of the 200 detained and disappeared. photo: Michael Fox In Honduras, family members of the victims of state violence in the 1980s have been marching for 40 years to demand justice for the disappearance and death of their … Read More