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A federal judge ruled Saturday that all of Kari Lake’s official actions in her brief appointment as CEO of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) “shall have no force or effect.” The motion for summary judgment ruling was a victory for the employees of Voice of America, a government-funded media broadcaster that sued after [...]

A Guatemalan court on Tuesday convicted six former officials for their roles in the 2017 fire at the state-run Hogar Seguro “Virgen de la Asunción” that ultimately claimed the lives of 41 girls and injured 15 others. The facility had long faced allegations of abuse and overcrowding. After the blaze, Judge Ingrid Cifuentes directed prosecutors [...]

Victims of state violence in Argentina’s Jujuy province deserve justice two years later, Amnesty International said in a report Friday. In 2023 the province of Jujuy underwent a constitutional reform initiated by Governor Gerardo Morales, which resulted in protests. Those protesting included teachers’ unions, Indigenous communities, leftist parties, and the dissenting wing of the Jujuy [...]

Voice of America employees filed an emergency motion on Monday to obtain a temporary restraining order to halt the Trump administration’s efforts to implement sweeping cuts at the federally funded broadcaster. The plaintiffs allege in the motion that the layoffs violate the First Amendment by targeting Voice of America’s editorial independence and claim that the [...]

A group of former journalists and other employees of the federal government-funded media company  Voice of America (VOA) filed a complaint in a New York federal court Friday seeking to force the federal government to restore the terminated employees and contractors to the positions they held before March 14 — the date President Donald Trump signed [...]

A Bolivian criminal court judge ordered the arrest of former president Evo Morales on Friday after he failed to appear at a precautionary measures hearing in an aggravated human trafficking case. Along with the arrest order, Judge Nelson Rocabado of the Fifth Anti-Corruption and Violence Against Women Criminal Court in Tarija imposed national travel restrictions, [...]

Bolivia’s Constitutional Tribunal announced on Friday its ruling that all elected officials can only serve a maximum of two terms, whether continuous or discontinuous, effectively barring former President Evo Morales and others from seeking reelection. The tribunal’s ruling, which was made last week but announced on Friday, emphasized that these term limits are fundamental to [...]

Supporters of Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales took more than 200 soldiers hostage on Saturday. The Bolivian Foreign Ministry reported that the activists occupied three military facilities in the region of Chapare during protests on Friday. The statement accused them of possessing weapons and ammunition. At least 30 police officers are reportedly injured, and more [...]

The national police force of Bolivia announced that they had arrested 44 protesters on Friday, after demonstrators set up more than 20 roadblocks on highways across the country to prevent the arrest of former president Evo Morales. The Bolivian police accused protestors of committing various crimes, including attacks on transportation security, usurpation of functions, criminal [...]

Bolivian authorities transferred General Juan José Zuñiga on Saturday to the maximum security El Abra prison as part of an ongoing investigation into his alleged leadership of a failed coup attempt against President Luis Arce’s government, Director of the Penitentiary System Juan Carlos Limpias told local media. Limpias said that prisoners at Chonchorro, where Zuñiga [...]