It can no longer be denied. Latin America, at least in the most urbanized and populated areas, is coming out. Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay as well as some states in Mexico have already legalized gay…
“If I go to restaurants, my family knows that I must sit in the back in a corner and far away from the windows, where I can have my back covered.” Luis Horacio Nájera got…
Charismatic leader, populist rhetoric resonate with voters Were Spain to hold a general election today, polling shows that it’s next prime minister might be a pony-tailed 36-year-old political newcomer from a year-old far-left party barely…
Prosecutors in Paraguay have issued an arrest warrant for a former mayor accused of killing a journalist and his assistant Oct. 16 after they returned from a reporting assignment in the indigenous settlement of Ko’ê…
Paraguay's national legislature will launch a special inquiry into the killing of a reporter and his assistant who had reported on drug trafficking and timber smuggling in the South American nation. Paraguay's Senate and Chamber…
A Peruvian magazine reporter was killed by two armed men who burst into his father's grocery store south of the capital Lima and shot him in the chest Nov. 9. Fernando Raymondi, 22, was studing…
'After I left Mexico my parents kept receiving letters for six months just to remind me to be quiet.' Verónica Basurto first became interested in journalism at age 12. She recalls combing through the financial…
Police in Mexico's northwestern Sinaloa state have found the half-buried and bullet-riddled body of a local magazine editor missing since Oct. 10. The body of Antonio Gamboa Urias was found Oct. 23. Gamboa had been…
From protests to corruption, Turkish media is finding fewer subjects can be safely covered. A strange thing happened less than a week after militants from the Islamic State in the Levant, or ISIL, seized Turkey’s…
A reporter for one of Paraguay's largest independent newspapers and his assistant were killed in an attack in an eastern province known for drug trafficking and timber smuggling. Pablo Medina, a correspondent for the newspaper…
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