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Infographic: Rising Death Toll in Central America’s Northern Triangle

This infographic charts the rising death toll in the Northern Triangle, which includes Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Driven by gang warfare, government corruption, and poverty, the violence in this comparatively small region exceeded the death tolls in several combined war zones in 2015.
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Jesuit Conference Calls for an End to Immigration Raids Targeting Central Americans

The Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United Sates has issued a statement denouncing the Obama Administration's decision to conduct nationwide raids in order to deport Central Americans in the U.S. seeking refugee and asylum status.
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Arrest Warrants Requested for Indicted Salvadoran Military Officials

Spanish National Court Judge Eloy Velasco has re-issued a request for international arrest warrants for more than a dozen former Salvadoran military officials, including members of the military High Command, for their involvement in the murder of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter in El Salvador in 1989.