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Nicaraguan police detained opposition presidential hopeful Arturo Cruz on Saturday and charged him with “conspiring against Nicaraguan society.” Cruz is the second opposition politician to be detained in less than a week as President Daniel Ortega seeks to maintain power leading up to the November presidential election. Cruz was a former ally to Ortega and [...]

Americans were shocked by Wednesday’s storming of the US Capitol by the Proud Boys and other rightwing mobs and militia. International observers and some U.S. politicians began referring to the country as a “banana republic” – a derogatory statement referring to banana-producing countries in Central America with histories of unstable and corrupt governments. Latin Americans [...]

The Nicaragua National Assembly Monday approved a law that will bar opposition politicians from participating in the November 2021 election. The “Law for the Defense of the Rights of the People to Independence, Sovereignty and Self-Determination for Peace” was sponsored by President Daniel Ortega and bars “those who ask for, celebrate and applaud the imposition [...]

Regulators need to know what happens out in the world to understand and to oversee the industries under their supervision. Information flow may be a particular challenge for overseeing payday lending. At present, most states do not have database systems to track payday lending operations. Even when states do have database systems, federal regulators may [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Bolivia on Monday of undermining judicial independence in the country by arbitrarily dismissing nearly 100 judges since 2017 and called for the Organization of American States (OAS) to address the issue. The organization called for OAS to convene a meeting of its Permanent Council to address the ongoing changes to the Bolivian [...]

Argentina President Mauricio Macri  expressed his plan to report Venezuela to the International Criminal Court (ICC)  during an interview on CNN’s Spanish service Sunday night. From a transcript of part of the interview published in el Nuevo Herald , Macri, along with the leaders of Colombia, Paraguay and other Latin American countries, plan to propose a petition [...]

The Organization of American States  passed a resolution  on Wednesday denouncing violence in Nicaragua, particularly the violence committed against members of the Roman Catholic clergy and other protesters by the Nicaraguan government.  The resolution also advocated that the Nicaraguan government adopt an electoral calendar to strengthen democracy and participate in a national dialogue. Twenty-one member states approved  the [...]

There is a reasonable basis to believe that Venezuelan government has committed crimes against humanity since at least 2012, according to the Organization of American States (OAS) . After releasing a 400-page report from a panel of independent experts, the OAS will be turning over its findings to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for government [...]

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report Monday detailing human rights violations in the aftermath of the 2017 Honduran presidential election The report documents violence committed by the government...

Recent measures taken by Brazil's interim president, Michel Temer , are "negative steps for a country known for its solid commitment to freedom of opinion and expression," according to a joint statement by UN Special...