Amnesty International calls on the authorities to release Tigrayans, activists and journalists, and reveal whereabouts of unnaccounted detainees. Arrests seem ethnically motivated and while some people released on bail, hundreds remain in detention   Police in Addis Ababa have arbitrarily arrested and detained vast swathes of  activists and journalists without […]

A convicted cocaine trafficker is among the suspects that authorities in Haiti are pursuing in connection to the middle-of-the-night murder of former President Jovenel Moïse, raising questions about whether organized crime had any role in the high-profile assault.   Parker Asmann InSight Crime   Rodolphe Jaar, a former drug smuggler […]

The centenary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party has just passed and the event invites much reflection.   Juan Diego García   Supporters of capitalism are surprised to see how China, formerly backward and humiliated by Western colonialism and Japanese fascism, has become the world’s second power with […]

Two days on from the nighttime assassination of Haiti President Jovenel Moïse in Port-au-Prince, competing theories have failed to provide any real motive for the high-profile hit.   Parker Asmann  InSight Crime   A commando of what Haitian Police Chief Léon Charles called well-armed “mercenaries” broke into the president’s residence early […]