Peruvian prisons were allowing visits after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, and he sensed a climate of high tension in ...

The record from Latin America shows that soldiers in city streets produce both short-term benefits and long-term damage.

Nicaragua’s authoritarian government has begun holding dissidents without revealing their whereabouts or acknowledging their ...

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Venezuelans were reunited with their families after spending four months in prison in El Salvador, where the U.S. government transferred them, accusing them of being members of a foreign gang in the U ...

Military police officers on Aug. 23 at the site where Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe was murdered while campaigning in Bogota, in June. Military police officers on Aug. 23 at the site ...

Inmates in Ecuador fought each other with guns and explosives in a riot that left 13 prisoners and a guard dead, police said ...

Libia Yamamoto was 7 years old on January 3, 1943, when local police came to her home in Chiclayo, Peru and arrested her father, Saburo Maoki, who worked on a sugar plantation. "They banged on the ...

Aug 1 (Reuters) - Former President Alvaro Uribe was convicted this week of abuse of process and bribery of a public official, and sentenced to 12 years of house arrest, making him the first ...