Tag: violence

• 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.

• Saturday, March 20th 2021 - 08:07 UTC

  Gang warfare next to Mexico City leaves 13 police officers on patrol massacred

  

  Bullet casings still littered the ground on Friday in Coatepec Harinas, a troubled municipality southwest of Mexico City where 13 police officers on patrol were brutally murdered in an ambush by suspected drug gang members.

• Tuesday, December 1st 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Murder of a French businessman and his colleague shock Mexico City

  

  A few hundred people marched in central Mexico City on Monday to protest the killing of a French businessman and his Mexican colleague over the weekend, the latest violent crime to inflame concerns about security in the country.

• Saturday, November 28th 2020 - 09:19 UTC

  Brazilian municipal runoffs in 57 cities with plenty of “wild west” shooting and killings in campaigns

  

  Brazilians return to the polls in 57 cities on Sunday for the runoffs of municipal elections that have seen surging violence involving assassinations and physical attacks on candidates.

• Saturday, August 29th 2020 - 08:47 UTC

  Chilean special force officer arrested for blinding a woman with a tear gas canister

  

  A Chilean special forces captain has been arrested for assault in relation to an incident in which a woman was blinded by a tear gas canister during the massive social protests that rocked the country in 2019.

• Friday, August 28th 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  Chilean truckers begin strike to protest violence in Araucania province

  

  Chilean truckers went on strike on Thursday in protest over violence affecting them in the country’s restive Araucania province and the slow progress through the congress of a raft of security and justice bills.

• Monday, August 3rd 2020 - 09:47 UTC

  Mexican journalist and bodyguard murdered in Mexico, fifth so far this year

  

  A Mexican journalist and his police bodyguard were murdered in a hail of gunfire in the southern state of Guerrero early on Sunday, police and human rights officials said. Pablo Morrugares is the fourth journalist murdered in Mexico in 2020.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  Uptick in domestic violence in Chile becomes politically controversial; women's minister forced to apologize

  

  The Chilean new women's minister has been forced to apologize and pull a controversial advertisement aimed at curbing an increase in domestic violence with the coronavirus pandemic.