Jeff Ernst

Keyla Martínez, a 26-year-old student, died of asphyxiation when she was being held alone in a police cell. But many don’t buy the police line that she committed suicide.

Cristiana Chamorro, a member of Nicaragua’s most prominent family and a press freedom advocate, has been charged with money laundering, an accusation she says is designed to keep her out of the November presidential race.

“I called my dad and just kind of pissed my pants,” said a Bitcoin company CEO when he heard about the plan, which could create a tax haven but aid criminal groups.

Those fleeing domestic as well as gang violence now have a greater chance of being granted asylum in the United States, thanks to recent changes by the Biden administration.

David Campbell Licona narrowly escaped capture from his mansion in 2016 and had been on the run ever since. The arrest suggests the role of the street gang in international cocaine trafficking could be growing.

The White House published the the “Engel List” as part of its push to combat corruption, but early reactions to the list focused more around who was not included than who was.

Vicky Hernández was 26 when she was killed in 2009. The Inter-American Court for Human Rights ruled that the state has to make systematic changes to assure the rights of trans people.

“We went in not to attack the people, but to expel the assassins, the drug traffickers and organized crime.”

The devastation caused by the disease is unprecedented. “You can lose colonies that were growing for hundreds of years in just weeks or months,” said one expert.

Emergency money will be applied to the growing crisis in the country’s reefs, but it’s unlikely to be enough to halt the march of stony coral tissue loss disease.

A video released by a group known as the “Chiquirrucas” has sparked a new debate about social class in Mexico.

“This is why your country’s shit,” one Border Patrol agent on horseback yelled at a group of Haitian migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas.