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WTOP
March 15, 2018
Jose Miguel Vivanco, the Americas director for Human Rights Watch, said the justice component of the peace accord and its implementing legislation contain “a web of ambiguities and loopholes that risk letting war criminal escape justice.” Offenders who fully confess their crimes will be subject to “effectiveÃâà...
New York Times
November 20, 2017
In 2016, he called a referendum on a constitutional amendment that would have eased term limits in the country's Constitution and allowed him to run for a fourth time. After 51 percent of the voters rejected the amendment, President Morales came up with a new plan. In September, his supporters inÃâà...
New York Times
September 1, 2017
SANTIAGO, Chile — Last month, in a huge victory for Chile's women, the Constitutional Court here upheld a long-awaited law that eases a total ban on abortion, raising hopes that other Latin American countries will soon reconsider their cruel restrictions on the procedure. The new Chilean law, passed byÃâà...
