By: Olivia Hansen In light of an economic downturn and political unrest, Venezuela is calling for impeachment of President Maduro. Maduro came to power in a special election after the death of Hugo Chavez in 2013. He ran after serving only six months as the Venezuelan Vice President under Chavez as the United Socialist Party […]
By: Cortney Knox On October 21, 2016, more than two years after a mass kidnapping that shook the world, Mexican authorities apprehended a key suspect, former Iguala Police Chief Felipe Flores Velázquez. Velázquez has been on the run since the September 2014 incident and is the latest of more than 128 suspects detained in relation […]
By: Michelle Perez Thousands of protestors, including members of over 280 Native American nations, gathered to establish Standing Stone Camp, outside of Bismarck, ND, creating the greatest gathering of Native American Tribes in the United States in nearly 150 years. They have unified to support the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, a part of the Great Sioux Nation, in its fight against the United States […]
By: Ian Bertschausen On September 17, 2016, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) filed an application to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights regarding human rights violations that took place over ten years prior.[1] On May 3 and 4 of 2006, police in the Texoco and Salvador Atenco municipalities in Mexico State detained and […]
