On the other hand, James Tomás Guanga Quelal, a young indigenous Awá leader from the Pialapi Pueblo Viejo Reserve, was also murdered by hitmen while traveling in a vehicle with his partner, who was injured. Related: Colombia Faces Rising Violence: 65th Massacre of 2024 Reported in Cauca The Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz) […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]