Yearly Archives: 2015

TODAY PANAMA (via Insightcrime.org) - The remote island prison dubbed the Guantanamo Bay of Panama houses the country's most dangerous prisoners, but concerns are mounting over harsh conditions and human rights violations occurring behind the prison's impregnable walls. In March 2015, Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela announced that the soon...

Q24N by Nathalie Alvarado - I too have been a victim of theft, when I was robbed of my laptop during a recent trip to the region. However, this incident pales in comparison to the veritable tragedy that violence is inflicting. Some 350 people die violently every day in the...

Q24N (Insightcrime.org) - Berlin is not one of those municipalities often presented as a territory immune to El Salvador's gang phenomenon. Berlin has more than 17,000 residents and is nestled in one of the most violent zones in the country, but over the past decade its homicide rate has...