Ecuador
Director of Ecuador’s penitentiary system resigns amid increasing prison crisis
The resignation of Guillermo Rodríguez from the SNAI comes a week after the last prison massacre, which claimed the lives of 31 inmates in the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil city
August 3, 2023
Burkina Faso
“A slave who cannot assume his own revolt does not deserve to be pitied,” says Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso
Captain Ibrahim Traoré denounced Western neo-colonialism, pledges an end to poverty and deadly mass migration from Africa
August 2, 2023
El Salvador
El Salvador authorizes mass trials of up to 900 prisoners
The country’s congress approved a reform to the Law Against Organized Crime which human rights organizations say creates an “arbitrary justice system”
July 28, 2023
Colombia
Paramilitary violence takes more lives in Colombia
During the past week, one Indigenous leader, one social leader, one former member of the FARC were assassinated, and three people were killed in a new massacre
July 25, 2023









