Jared Olson

A US court con­victs for­mer right-wing Pres­i­dent Juan Or­lan­do Her­nan­dez of nar­co-traf­fick­ing.

A wit­ness in the tri­al ac­cused an un­named mem­ber of the Is­raeli em­bassy in Colom­bia of par­tic­i­pat­ing in a co­caine ring.

For­mer Pres­i­dent Juan Or­lan­do Her­nan­dez faces ac­cu­sa­tions he trans­formed Hon­duras into a drug-traf­fick­ing ‘nar­co-state’.

Pres­i­dent Xiomara Cas­tro’s gov­ern­ment must do more to pro­tect those fight­ing for en­vi­ron­men­tal rights, crit­ics say.

New in­ves­ti­ga­tion re­veals al­le­ga­tions of tor­ture, ev­i­dence-plant­i­ng and ex­tra­ju­di­cial killings by se­cu­ri­ty forces.

Berta Cáceres’s daugh­ter has al­leged that Dutch state-run bank ig­nored signs of em­bez­zle­ment, vi­o­lat­ing laws.

Promi­nent en­vi­ron­men­tal and In­dige­nous ac­tivist Berta Cac­eres was shot dead in her home in 2016.

Con­gress has vot­ed to re­verse con­tro­ver­sial ZEDE law, which al­lowed for the cre­ation of semi-au­tonomous cor­po­rate zones.

Six ac­tivists who op­posed an open-pit min­ing project faced years in jail – un­til the Supreme Court stepped in.