Proposals to limit the scope of the IACHR would reverse decades of progress in human rights in the region.
Brazil’s Supreme Court finished sentencing 25 people in a historic case as President Dilma Rousseff’s administration took further steps in a zero-tolerance approach to corruption.
After a private AS/COA roundtable in El Salvador on security and violence prevention, the minister discussed the results of El Salvador's gang truce and whether it is a model that could be replicated in Guatemala and Honduras.
El ministro habló con AS/COA sobre los resultados de la tregua entre las pandillas en El Salvador y si es replicable en Guatemala y Honduras.
Ahead of the country’s February 2013 election, Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa will appoint new judges to the Constitutional Court, a move critics say could help him consolidate control over the judicial branch and media outlets.
With Venezuela preparing for a competitive presidential election, media watchdogs warn of restrictions on press freedoms ahead of voting day.
AS/COA Online spoke to Carlos Lauría, the senior Americas program coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists about press freedom in Venezuela, how media restrictions affect the presidential campaigns, and violence against journalists.