Prison
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AMERICAS
Latin America Shadows Panama as Region Embraces Tougher Prison Politics
Panama's largest prison escape exposed more than broken fences at La Joyita. It revealed an exhausted state, a public primed…
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Latin America Swings Right as Fear Becomes the Ballot Box
Across Latin America, voters exhausted by extortion, kidnappings, and institutional drift are rewarding candidates who promise prisons, soldiers, and sealed…
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Colombia Prisons Turn Overcrowding Into Security’s Darkest National Mirror Now
Colombia's prison crisis is no longer only about crowded cells. New oversight findings show beds, toilets, medicine, extortion, murdered guards,…
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Venezuela Prison Releases Expose Freedom’s Price After Maduro’s Sudden Fall
Venezuela's promised 300 prison releases have not quieted families demanding freedom for every political detainee, as deaths in custody, torture…
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AMERICAS
El Salvador Tests Justice by Trying 486 Suspects All Together
El Salvador's mass trial of 486 alleged gang leaders promises swift punishment for years of terror. Yet, it forces Latin…
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Venezuela’s Amnesty Conceals a More Complex Reality for Latin America Today
Venezuela's new amnesty law was intended to signal relief following Nicolás Maduro's removal; however, allegations of torture, lack of transparency,…
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Latin America Watches Cuba’s Prison Gesture and Washington’s Old Reflexes
Cuba's plan to release fifty-one prisoners comes at a tense moment, where Vatican diplomacy, internal pressures, and renewed US pressure…
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El Salvador Emergency Rule Meets a Growing Human Rights Reckoning
A new report on El Salvador's extended state of exception reveals a darker side to the country's praised anti-gang crackdown:…
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AMERICAS
Venezuelan Prison Messages Travel Home on Wrappers, Laundry, and Hope
In a small apartment near Caracas, Adriana Briceño holds onto a chocolate wrapper with a note from her son to…
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AMERICAS
Venezuela Prison Hill Shouts Turn Amnesty into Nightly Family Ritual
Every night at El Rodeo, just outside Caracas, families climb a hill with candles to shout messages to political prisoners.…
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