America

by Maurizio Sacchi The year 2021 ended in Colombia with a tragic toll of assassinations, among union representatives, indigenous leaders and former guerrilla fighters who laid down their arms: 97 massacres with 335 victims and with the assassination of 171...

by Maurizio Sacchi Peru's chief prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into new President Dina Boluarte and members of her cabinet for the violent clashes in which at least 40 people have been killed and hundreds injured since the beginning...

By Lasse Bruun and  Milena Bernal Rubio (*) – Newsweek The aspiration of inter-regionalism is to ease access for companies to regulated markets by giving them more legal protection, better geographical access and lower investment costs. However, integration projects and...

by Maurizio Sacchi There are currently 19 million poor people in Argentina out of a population of 46 million: 41 percent. This is a dramatic figure, and it does not look like it is going to get any better, as...

by Maurizio Sacchi At least two clichés about the relationship between Colombian criminal organisations and politics are demystified in the memoirs of former narco Carlos Lehder. His book, Life and Death of the Medellín Cartel (below is the cover of...

This article appeared first on the Italian website of the Atlas of Wars on september 18, 2021. It was written by our Director, Italian journalist Raffaele Crocco. The news we received in September 2021 are signals of one, greater message:...

By Maurizio Sacchi As Ottawa's new police chief prepares to remove the blockade of no-vax truckers that is paralysing Canada's capital city, the clash between supporters and opponents of the so-called Freedom Convoy is shifting to the web. And, from...

By Gianni Beretta At least 1,400 young pandilleros were arrested in El Salvador in some 50 public order operations throughout the country. This happened in the first three days of the 'state of exception' adopted by the President of the...

by Gianni Beretta Me duele respirar’, it hurts me to breathe. These are the last words of 15-year-old Alvaro Conrado, one of the very first victims of the student uprising that broke out in Nicaragua in April 2018, involving hundreds...

by Gianni Beretta There are now more and more cases of containers from Nicaragua being discovered in Europe with large quantities of drugs hidden inside. In the port of Vado Ligure, the coastal police Guardia di Finanza found 116 kilos...