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Brazil reported 225 missing persons a day in 2023

Published on: April 14, 2024
00:30

Brasilia, Apr 14 (Prensa Latina) Brazil reported an average of 225 missing people a day in 2023, as revealed by the Public Security Map of the Ministry of Justice.

Salvadorans remember crime of Dutch journalists

Published on: March 17, 2024
12:32

San Salvador, Mar 17 (Prensa Latina) Forty-two years after the murder of four Dutch journalists by military forces in El Salvador, the perpetrators enjoy impunity, human rights organizations have denounced.

A woman is killed in Ecuador every 27 hours

Published on: March 9, 2024
00:15

Quito, Mar 9 (Prensa Latina) A woman is killed in Ecuador every 27 hours, and 1,698 women have been murdered here in the last ten years, El Telegrafo newspaper reported.

High proliferation of firearms in Uruguay

Published on: March 5, 2024
13:36

Montevideo, Mar 5 (Prensa Latina) Uruguay is among the countries with the highest number of registered weapons despite a population of less than 3.5 million people, according to statistics released here.

Costa Rica reports nearly 140 homicides in 2024

Published on: February 28, 2024
00:45

San Jose, Feb 28 (Prensa Latina) Costa Rica's Judicial Investigation Department (OIJ) has registered 138 homicides this year, most of them in the Caribbean province of Limón.

Haitian police search for killers of SWAT agent

Published on: February 15, 2024
15:09

Port-au-Prince, Feb 15 (Prensa Latina) The Haitian National Police (PNH) is on the trail of the perpetrators of an attack against a SWAT Team agent, who was gunned down in the capital.

Paraguayan drug network that operates with cryptocurrencies denounced

Published on: February 6, 2024
00:30

Asunción, Feb 6 (Prensa Latina) An international organization of drug traffickers deactivated in 2022 by Paraguay's Operation A Ultranza Py, the largest in the country against this scourge, used cryptocurrencies in its transactions, the government reported.

El Salvador to reduce homicide rate in 2024

Published on: January 31, 2024
00:30

San Salvador, Jan 31 (Prensa Latina) Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele said that his country already has the lowest homicide rate in the western hemisphere.

El Salvador is close to record homicide-free days

Published on: January 28, 2024
11:54

San Salvador, Jan 28 (Prensa Latina) The National Civil Police (PNC) informed on Sunday that El Salvador has so far reached 22 days without murders in January, due to the government policy and the support of the exception regime.

El Salvador reports 20 homicide-free days in January

Published on: January 26, 2024
13:46

San Salvador, Jan 27 (Prensa Latina) El Salvador has reported 20 days without gang-related murders, according to the National Civil Police (PNC).

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