Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism
El Salvador's unstoppable gangs
By  • 7 July 2016
El Salvador has a population of a little more than 6 million people, less than New York City. But the violence in the small Central American country is out of control. It has a murder…
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Brazil arrests three in 2013 slaying of editor
By  • 10 November 2015
Brazilian police have arrested three suspects for the 2013 killing of an editor of a newspaper in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro. The three men are alleged to belong to a local "militia" gang…
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U.S. deportations fuel El Salvador violence
By  • 19 May 2015
Gangs have made El Salvador one of the world's most dangerous countries. In March 2015, 481 people were murdered in El Salvador, a country of 6 million. That's more than were murdered in the state…
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Colombian reporter who covered child exploitation attacked
By  • 18 November 2014
A Colombian journalist investigating child prostitution by criminal gangs was attacked Nov. 10 in northwest Colombia. Oscar Castaño, a program director for Orientese Television [Get Oriented TV], had traveled 12 miles from his home city…
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