Tag: violence

• Saturday, May 14th 2022 - 20:20 UTC

  Uruguay faces a wave of violence that could mean a homicide record – government blames drug trafficking

  

  Uruguay has been experiencing dark hours in terms of homicides in recent days. In the first quarter of this year, there were 96 homicides in a country of some 3.5 million inhabitants, 33% more than in the same period of 2021 and a figure that marks a trend that, if maintained, would mean an annual homicide record in the southern country.

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• Monday, May 2nd 2022 - 09:34 UTC

  Reporter among those wounded during demonstrations in Chile

  

  A TV reporter was among the three people wounded in Santiago during incidents involving law enforcement officers (Carabineros), armed street merchants, and hooded looters during a Labor Day demonstration by unionist groups.

• Tuesday, February 15th 2022 - 09:14 UTC

  Killings, bombings and threats mark the coming legislative elections in Colombia

  

  In less than a month, on 13th March, Colombians will be going to the polls to renew the Legislative, and according to the Peace and Reconciliation Foundation, there have been 163 victims of political violence, including 19 candidates and politicians who have been murdered in the last twelve months.

• Thursday, January 27th 2022 - 09:26 UTC

  Violence on the rise on Mexico's Caribbean beaches

  

  Two Canadian tourists and one Argentine hotel manager have been found murdered in less than a week, in Mexico's Riviera Maya area. These events have once again put the spotlight on violence in this region full of beach resorts.

• Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Honduras to choose new president amid increasing violence

  

  Honduras goes to the polls Sunday amid growing concern over increasing violence, according to the United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights (former Chilean two-time President Michelle Bachelet), the Croatian MEP Željana Zovko, head of the European Union's (EU) Observation Mission.

• Friday, November 12th 2021 - 09:11 UTC

  Armed forces summoned as violent killings increase in El Salvador

  

  The recent murders of 46 people in the last 72 hours all across El Salvador have led President Nayib Bukele to summon the army to assist the national police in patrolling the most violent areas.

• Thursday, November 4th 2021 - 09:42 UTC

  People's Tribunal to hold governments accountable for the killings of journalists

  

  In an unprecedented effort to achieve justice in the killing of journalists, three leading press freedom groups have launched a People's Tribunal to hold governments accountable. The Tribunal, a form of grassroots justice, relies on investigations and high-quality legal analysis involving specific cases in three countries and was launched in The Hague.

• Wednesday, September 22nd 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Killings of social leaders in Colombia total 124 so far in 2021

  

  Monday's killing of five social leaders in Colombia have increased this year's figures to 124, the Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz) has reported.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2021 - 07:10 UTC

  Brazil deploys national guard to contain outbreak of violence in Manaus

  

  Brazil's Justice Minister Anderson Torres Monday gave the green light for national forces to intervene in the capital city of the state of Amazonia, Manaus, which has been ransacked by acts of violence and looting over the past month, was announced.

• Tuesday, June 1st 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  Drug gang violence results in 9 deaths in Colombia

  

  Nine people died Monday after armed men broke into a coffee farm in the municipality of Algeciras, in southern Colombia, and “ended the lives of eight men and one woman,” the Ombudsman's Office reported. The victims were coffee pickers, it was informed.