By Dr. Ronn Pineo & Ian Kowalski Council on Hemispheric Affairs The most violent nation in the world is Honduras, with more murders per capita (92 per 100,000) than even Iraq or Afghanistan and twenty times more than the…
Global Views, zNew Headline
Argentina’s ‘Soccer Mafia’ strives to instill fear
Aug 27, 2013, 3:02 PM 0
By Miriam Wells InSight Crime The director of Argentina’s federal police has received a death threat believed to be from one of the country’s “soccer mafias” — violent gangs that control the sport and have deep connections to the…
Global Views, zNew Headline
Explaining Mexico City’s Recent Wave of Violence
Jul 10, 2013, 3:50 PM 0
By Patrick Corcoran InSight Crime A new report from a Mexico City analysis firm details the rivalries among local trafficking groups, thereby revealing some of the deeper causes of some spectacular recent acts of violence in the city. The…
General, Life Issues, Youth
Young people challenged to live the next 50 days without violence in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Apr 4, 2013, 2:20 PM 0
LatinaLista — Today, April 4, marks the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As in years past, his life and message of nonviolence will be honored, remembered and talked about but, unlike past anniversary observances,…
By Jhon Capa Infosurhoy.com The murder of 10 rappers since 2007 in Comuna 13 has not silenced the musicians who serve as the community’s social activists. MEDELLÍN, Colombia – When a bullet silences an artist in Medellín’s Comuna 13,…
LatinaLista — Immigration lawyers and activists have long known that President Obama’s assertion that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents would not deport undocumented immigrants considered low-level threats didn’t match what was happening in the streets. Earlier this month,…
BlogBeat
Promoting Healthy Relationships to Prevent Teen Dating Violence and Abuse among Latinos
Feb 18, 2013, 10:41 AM 0
SaludToday Hispanic and black high-school students suffer a higher prevalence of dating violence. In honor of February being National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, we urge you to check out a new video from Start Strong: Building…
Videos
Viernes Video: New comedy/drama film based on true events shows the ‘Road to Juarez’ is a two-way street
Feb 8, 2013, 11:56 AM 0
LatinaLista — What happens when a Mexican American smalltime hustler finds himself back in the mother country abruptly trapped in the middle of a dangerous savage criminal enterprise? He ends up on “a journey to the heart of a…
Local News, West
Targeted by Mexico’s Deadly Drug Cartels, Journalists at a Tijuana Newsweekly Risk Their Lives to Report the Truth
Jan 7, 2013, 10:34 AM 1
La Prensa San Diego As the Drug War Intensifies, Will the Free Press Be Silenced? In 1980, Jesús Blancornelas and Héctor Félix Miranda founded the Mexican newsweekly Zeta. They intended it to stand as an independent voice, different…
By Daniel Higa Alquicira Infosurhoy.com MEXICO CITY – Since he was a child, Luis Alberto Ramos Hernández dreamed of singing and dancing on the world’s biggest stages. But coming from a low-income family in the Colonia Anáhuac of the…
By Sylvia Longmire Mexico’s Drug War “At least seven people…have been killed and 24 others wounded in a string of shootings in the US city of Chicago in the past two days.” This was one very stark headline the…
General, Guest Voz
Guest Voz: Do Stand Your Ground Laws Worsen Racial Disparities?
Aug 8, 2012, 3:39 PM 0
By John Roman MetroTrends Blog A couple of months ago my colleague Mitch Downey and I wrote about how Stand Your Ground (SYG) laws distort the justice system: in states with SYG laws, homicides are twice as likely to…
Videos
Video: Campaign calls on President Obama to stop gun smuggling into Mexico
Aug 6, 2012, 12:00 AM 2
LatinaLista — Gun violence has been a consistent news headline for too long. Whether it’s Mexican cartel violence or the slaughter of innocent theatergoers or Sikh temple members, the easy availability of guns makes preventable loss of life all…
Culture, History
New website keeps world informed on the death and violence in Juarez, Mexico
May 18, 2012, 12:54 PM 2
LatinaLista — There is no other geographic location in North America that is as synonymous with violence and death as Juarez, Mexico. The weekly killing sprees, daily random shootings and continuous gruesome discoveries of mutilated bodies or shallow buried…
General, Local News, Midwest
Mexico’s poet, Javier Sicilia, calls for unity to help combat Mexico’s violence
May 3, 2012, 10:47 AM 1
by Deysi Cuevas Extra News CHICAGO — Since 2006, when Mexico’s president, Felipe Calderon, began a crackdown on drug cartels, over 34,600 people have been killed. On Tuesday, April 17, poet, novelist, journalist and activist Javier Sicilia spoke at…
Global Views
From Cradle to Conflict: Child Soldiers’ Growing Role in Latin America’s Drug Wars
Apr 27, 2012, 3:36 PM 0
By Melissa Beale Council on Hemispheric Affairs Approximately 300,000 children around the globe have been recruited as child soldiers. These children are forced to enter “various armed groups, civil militia, paramilitaries and government armed forces.” According to the United…
Government, Social Justice, Women
Ad campaign urges Congress to get tough on countries that condone violence against women
Jul 26, 2010, 4:56 PM 0
LatinaLista — With Democrats and Republicans seemingly at each other’s throats all the time, it’s hard to imagine that they can come together for any issue — but thankfully they have. A bipartisan bill was introduced on February 4,…
