Media Coverage

After releasing a first-of-its-kind report earlier this year that examined slavery in the United States and the lingering effects on African Americans, the California Reparations Task Force is holding a two-day public hearing this weekend to discuss reparations. Assembly Bill 3121 (AB 3121) was...

A team tasked with investigating alleged violations in Venezuela said it had uncovered how members of intelligence services implemented orders by President Nicolás Maduro and others in a scheme to stifle opposition. “In doing so, grave crimes and human rights violations are being committed...

Colombian government representatives have met with members of an armed group that grew out of the demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels, photos tweeted by President Gustavo Petro have shown. On his Twitter account, Petro published two photos on Sunday that appeared to show...

Colombia has asked the Venezuelan government of President Nicolas Maduro to be guarantor of talks with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, the last active rebel group in a country torn by decades of conflict. In a speech, Maduro said, "Of course we agree!" It thus joins Chile and Cuba as...

Gaston Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, announced he plans to hold a referendum within the next three years to decide whether to remove the king as head of state and become a republic. "This is a matter that has to be taken to a referendum for the people to decide," Browne told ITV...

Colombia’s Truth Commission revealed the names of 423 people and 58 companies that allegedly financed the expansion of paramilitary organization AUC between 1995 and 1998 within the city of Medellin. None of the people and the companies in the AUC’s financial administration were taken to court after...

Though the rejection camp had 61.9 percent support compared to 38.1 percent for approval when 99 percent of the votes had been counted after Sunday's referendum, most Chileans favor changing the dictatorship-era constitution. For in 2020, just under 80 percent of Chileans voted in favor of changing...

Canada has announced investments totaling more than $4 million to support 278 first nation community projects all across the country. The money will also fund two major national projects: a national commemorative gathering on September 30 for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and an...

Mexico's former attorney general has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of 43 students in 2014. Jesús Murillo Karam, who led an inquiry into the atrocity, has been charged with forced disappearance, torture, and the obstruction of justice. The students vanished while traveling by bus...

A former Peruvian military officer who led a failed 2005 uprising has been released from prison, following a surprise announcement that his 19-year sentence had been reduced. A lawyer for Antauro Humala, the leader of Peru’s Ethnocacerist nationalist movement, which seeks to put the country’s...