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El Salvador Among the Top 5 Best Performing Tourist Destinations Worldwide in 2023
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) released its list of the best-performing destinations for 2023; El Salvador ranked fifth behind Turks and Caicos, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Albania. International tourism recovered 88% of pre-pandemic levels in 2023, supported by strong pent-up … Read more
Idhuca Launches Online Form to Report Human Rights Violations in El Salvador
The UCA Human Rights Institute (Idhuca) launched an online form to receive complaints of human rights violations from Salvadorans; the human rights organization will make legal and psychosocial services available to people who have been affected. Gabriela Santos, director of … Read more
Mexico Crime Profile: Criminal Groups, Security Forces, Prisons, and the Judicial System
Mexico is home to some of the hemisphere’s largest, most sophisticated, and most violent organized criminal groups. These organizations have drawn from Mexico’s long history of smuggling and its proximity to the United States, the world’s largest economy, to grow into a regional threat. Their networks stretch from Argentina to Canada and even into Europe. They … Read more
How can Salvadorans vote in elections? The next elections are in 2024
Salvadorans within the country can vote in the 2024 elections at the designated polling place in the municipality they reside. Salvadorans living abroad can vote remotely via the Internet from January 6 to February 4 and at selected locations, in … Read more
Guatemala Crime Profile: Analyzing Criminal Groups, Security Forces, the Judicial System, and Prisons
Guatemala’s criminal organizations are among the most sophisticated in Central America. Some of them have been in operation for decades. They include former members of the military, intelligence agencies, active members of the police, public officials, and drug traffickers. In the political sphere, state-embedded corruption networks continue to tighten their grip on the political and … Read more
Chile’s Crime Profile: An In-Depth Look at Criminal Networks, Security Forces, Prisons, and the Justice System
Despite its proximity to cocaine-producing Andean countries, Chile has not suffered the negative effects of organized crime to the same extent as other nations in the region. In fact, it is one of the safest nations in Latin America. Since emerging from the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in 1990, Chile has enacted a series of key reforms that have helped build efficient security forces and an … Read more
Nicaragua Crime Profile: Examining Criminal Groups, Security Forces, the Judicial System, and Prisons
Nicaragua has long been one of the least violent countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although some local gangs and at least one transnational criminal organization have a foothold there, so far the country has not experienced the high homicide rates common in its Central American neighbors. Nevertheless, traffickers have taken advantage of Nicaragua’s … Read more