Jack Nicas Editorial update (October 27, 2026): This article was published on October 23, before Brazil’s October 25 presidential runoff. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva subsequently won re-election. The original pre-election analysis is retained below unchanged. When...
Jacqueline Charles Flights carrying soldiers and military equipment from El Salvador continued to arrive on Monday in Haiti, where search and rescue operations for four missing Salvadoran aviation technicians remain ongoing. The men were ambushed on Oct. 18 in a...
The United Nations (UN) Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine says Russian authorities committed human trafficking by recruiting foreign nationals to fight on the Ukrainian front. The report, which the Commission of Inquiry shared exclusively with...
Journalists Eduardo Hernández and Sara Escobar, from the community media outlet Occidente Informa, denounced restrictions on their reporting work and threats during coverage of the election of new leaders of the Asociación Administradora de Acueductos Los Enviados de...
A mother who has gone four years and five months without hearing from her son, detained under the state of exception, reports having been the victim of a $6,000 scam by a man who presented himself as a lawyer and offered to arrange his release through a habeas corpus...
The former mayor of San Miguel, Wilfredo Salgado, on Monday rejected the deficiencies the Court of Accounts pointed out in the handling of $2.2 million for the municipality’s patron saint festivities from May 1, 2021, through April 30, 2024. The Fifth Chamber of...
