Two people on opposite sides of the immigration debate find each other lost in the desert and discover their humanity and the true plight of migrants crossing the Arizona desert. Tickets for our World Premiere at LALIFF on October 11 at 5 PM at the Chinese Grauman Theater can be purchased at: THE MOVIE Detained in the Desert parallels two completely different people: Sandi, a second-generation dark skinned Latina and Lou Becker, an inflammatory talk show radio host, whose lives converge...

Mr. Andrew Standley, Head of the European Union Delegation to Mexico, attended to the first edition of the awarding of the "Gilberto Bosques" Human Rights Price, granted by the Embassies of France and Germany accredited in Mexico, which was carried out at the premises of the Commission of Human Rights in Mexico City. The Price, which seeks to acknowledge individuals or groups of Human Rights defenders, was granted to Mr. Tomás González Castillo, director of the...

At least five privately-owned local and community-based media organizations in three South American countries have been the targets of violent attacks in the past few weeks, depriving some of them of the means to broadcast. Reporters Without Borders is committed to helping them rebuild. The press freedom organization is seeking a detailed breakdown of the estimated damage they have suffered. In view of the extent of the losses, we are requesting assistance from the authorities in the...

Once again, the Barrios family, 10 members of which have been killed by alleged Aragua state police officers, have been victims of new threats and harassment. On September 13, agents of the Scientific, Criminal and Forensic Investigation Police Agency (Cicpc) broke into the residence of Lilia Ysabel Solórzano Barrios without a warrant, and threatened to kill Víctor Daniel Cabrera Barrios. Víctor Daniel Cabrera Barrios is the son of Eloisa Barrios, who has been denouncing...

Non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch requested the founding members of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) to persuade Venezuela to revert its decision to withdraw from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The petition was made by José Miguel Vivanco, director of Human Rights Watch's Americas division, in four separate letters issued to the presidents of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Vivanco stated that withdrawal is "particularly problematic...

Independent journalists Alejandro Amado Fraustro and Estela Morales were released on bail yesterday, along with other people who had been arrested arbitrarily during street demonstrations in Mexico City on 1 September. But the two other journalists who were arrested on 1 September, Gustavo Ruíz Lizárraga and Pável Alejandro Primo Noriega, have been transferred to a Mexico City detention centre until a judge sets bail for them. The trial for all four journalists is still...

Protests were reported on Thursday morning at Venezuela-Colombia border, particularly across the international bridges connecting Venezuela's south-western Táchira state with Colombia. Apparently, Colombian smugglers, also know as "maleteros," gathered to protest against the controls the Venezuelan National Guard has been implementing in the border to avoid food and commodity smuggling into Colombia. The smugglers burned two vehicles and tires across the Simón...

Reporters Without Borders and the CERIGUA Journalists’ Observatory deplore radio programme host Luis de Jesús Lima’s murder yesterday in the Zacapa province. He was the third journalist to be killed in Guatemala since the start of the year. Like the previous two victims - Luis Alberto Lemus Ruano and Jaime Napoleón Jarquín Duarte - Lima was slain in the southeast of the country, a region where criminal violence is on the rise and journalists are increasingly...

At least seven corpses have been recovered so far from the grave in Tlalmanalco, Rodolfo Rios, the Mexico City prosecutor, told Radio Formato 21, and he said officials would run DNA tests to determine their identities. “We have to wait for the autopsies to know how long they have been dead,” he said. Authorities say they found the bodies in an area near Rancho La Mesa Ecological Park in the state of Mexico. “The prosecutor called me and said that nothing is confirmed...

The opposition Unified Democratic Panel (MUD) maintained support to all the legislative initiatives provided in the Constitution to fight against corruption. In that sense, the Venezuelan opposition coalition believes that the Enabling Law to be requested by President Nicolás Maduro is "unjustifiable." "We have enough information that makes us believe that the special powers will be used for electoral purposes, to chase the government's political contenders, and to...