Latin America
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An Argentine federal court on Thursday convicted several individuals of meddling with the official investigation into the South American country’s deadliest incident of terrorism, the 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires of the AMIA Jewish community center that killed more than 80 people… Read this piece in its entirety at LobeLog.
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Brazilian mining company Vale SA lied to investors about safety measures at a mining dam in the South American country that collapsed on Jan. 25, in an incident similar to a 2016 disaster, according to a proposed class action filed Friday in New York federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Fairfield University and other religious entities said they would pay more than $60 million to settle allegations that they failed to stop a now-convicted child molester from sexually abusing dozens of boys at a school for disadvantaged children in Haiti, according to court filings made Friday… Read this piece at Law360.
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Which criminal structures have gained the most strength in Latin America in 2018? Three groups, all based in different nations, have engaged in aggressive expansion, both territorial and economic, and are set to dominate the region’s criminal landscape… Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.
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Johns Hopkins University, Bristol-Meyers Squibb Co. and the Rockefeller Foundation, accused of participating in controversial syphilis experiments in Guatemala during the 1940s and 1950s, failed to show that their status as corporations protects them from liability under the Alien Tort Statute, a Maryland federal judge said Thursday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 