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Honduras to embark on new era after Castro sweeps to power

Honduras to embark on new era after Castro sweeps to power

The term ‘historic victory’ is overused in politics, but it is apt to describe the triumph in the presidential elections on 28 November by Xiomara Castro. In the 183 years since Honduran independence in 1838, with the exception of 19 y...

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López Obrador sends down contentious electricity reform

López Obrador sends down contentious electricity reform

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has submitted a constitutional reform proposal to the federal chamber of deputies to overhaul Mexico’s electricity industry by dismantling a section of the 2013 reform that opened up the en...

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Otoniel’s capture unlikely to change the drug trafficking panorama

Otoniel’s capture unlikely to change the drug trafficking panorama

Heralded by President Iván Duque as Colombia’s “biggest strike against drug trafficking this century” and a moment that “can only be compared to the fall of Pablo Escobar,” the 23 October capture of Dairo Anton...

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The United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), along with local civil society groups, have blasted a series of reforms to Honduras’ criminal code, criminal procedural code, and anti-money laundering legisla...

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For over a century running up to the 1980s the military leaders of Latin America saw themselves as men with a mission (for most of that time they were indeed men – since there were no, or very few, women in the ranks of the military). The mi...