Tag: Murder
Peru: Amazonian Indigenous Leader Mariano Isacama Found Dead
Human rights defenders recalled that 34 community leaders have been murdered since 2013. On Sunday, Mariano Isacama-Feliciano, an Indigenous leader of the Amazonian Kakataibo people, was found dead with signs of torture after being missing for 24 days. RELATED: Peruvian Minister Apologizes for Downplaying Sexual Violence Against Indigenous Minors The Peruvian Indigenous leader was known […]
July 15, 2024
Ecuador: New Political Leader Assassinated in the South of the Country
The victim was David Jiménez, who served as a political lieutenant of the parish El Cambio The political lieutenant of a town in southern Ecuador was shot dead on Monday, in a new attack against a local authority allegedly perpetrated by organized crime, to which President Daniel Noboa declared since the beginning of the year […]
July 8, 2024
A Third of Murders Worldwide Are Committed in Latin America
On Monday, the executive president of the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean-CAF, Sergio Díaz Granados, during his visit to Ecuador, warned of the growing number of homicides in the entire Latin America and the Caribbean region. RELATED: Colombia Begins the Process to Open Embassy in Palestine According to Diaz Granados, a third […]
June 4, 2024
Haiti: Death of Three Foreign Missionaries Repudiated
On Tuesday, Haiti’s Office of Citizen Protection (OPCH ) expressed its dismay after the murder of three foreign missionaries working in an orphanage in the Caribbean nation, where gangs are keeping the citizenry under siege. Related: U.S. Missionaries Killed by Gangs in Haiti In its note, the OPCH made public its indignation and described as […]
May 28, 2024
Marielle Franco’s Killer Confesses Details of the Murder
Former military officer Ronnie Lessa, accused of murdering Brazilian councillor Marielle Franco and driver Anderson Gomes, confessed that he carried out the murder in exchange for leading a new militia in Rio de Janeiro. RELATED: Brazilians Ask for Impeachment of Porto Alegre Mayor In a video published by Fantástico de la TV Globo, Lessa […]
May 27, 2024
Colombian Councilor is Murdered in Antioquia
The Institute of Studies for Development and Peace (Indepaz) of Colombia denounced the murder of the councilor of Toledo (Antioquia), León Eugenio García Jiménez. RELATED: Colombia: Southwest Militarized After Insurgent Group Attacks According to the official statement, the body of García Jiménez was found dead on the new bridge of the Vereda de las Margaritas. […]
May 21, 2024
Director of Prison Murdered in Manabi, Ecuador
On Sunday the director of an Ecuadorian prison was assassinated, in the middle of the referendum day, called by President Daniel Noboa. RELATED: Daniel Noboa Votes in Ecuador Referendum The victim was Cosme Parrales, director of the Rodeo Prison in Portoviejo, Manabí, as confirmed in a statement by the National Service of Comprehensive Care for […]
April 21, 2024
Justice For Marielle Franco: Detained Masterminds of Her Murder
The Brazilian Federal Police reported on Sunday that they arrested three suspected masterminds of the murder of Socialist and Freedom Party (PSOL) councilwoman Marielle Franco on March 14, 2018. RELATED: The Murder of Marielle Franco Remains Unpunished in Brazil According to Agência Brasil News and sources linked to the investigation, Domingos Brazão, current advisor to the […]
March 24, 2024
Violence in Mexico: Michoacán Commissioner Decapitated
The regional commissioner in Pátzcuaro de la Guardia de Michoacán, in Mexico, Kristel García Hurtado, was decapited on Sunday night in the town of San Juan Tumbio. RELATED: The Ayotzinapa Case to Be Attended, Mexican President AMLO Vows Along with Kristel, her two bodyguards were killed and the patrol in which they were traveling was […]
March 18, 2024
FGE Throws Results on the Murder of Fernando Villavicencio
The Attorney General of the State (FGE) of Ecuador, says, after a long investigation, that the death of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, was orchestrated by a faction of the criminal gang of Los Lobos. RELATED: Six Dead in Guayas Prison, Implicated in Villavicencio Murder The investigations on the crime committed in the night of 9 June 2023 […]