Catherine Ellis

El Salvador's President Bukele proposes a prisoner swap to Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro. He's offered to repatriate 252 Venezuelans being held in a Salvadoran jail for the same number of political prisoners in Venezuela. There are at least 890 political prisoners in Venezuela.

#Venezuela has the highest number of political prisoners in Latin America. Those behind bars face torture and are forced to live in inhumane conditions. @catherineellis.bsky.social writes for Index on the ongoing plight of political prisoners in the country journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Adult webcam models face labour and sexual exploitation in Colombian studios - and multinational platforms hosting the shows are facilitating it.

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Finding Macondo from 100 Years of Solitude. Much of the inspiration for it comes from Aracataca, Colombia - Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s birth town

My friend has been taken by the Venezuelan regime. No one knows where he is. The repression in Venezuela has to stop soon, doesn’t it??!

‘They Wanted Us to Sell Our Virginity’: How Foreign Tourists Are Sexually Exploiting Underage Girls in Colombia — More to Her Story Despite a reported 1100% increase in arrests of foreigners sexually exploiting Colombian girls as young as 12, advocates warn this is just the tip of the iceberg. Photo: Santiago Mesa / EL PAÍS

Foreign tourists travelling to Colombia to sexually exploit minors. “They wanted us to sell our virginity,” said Paola. “I needed money. I wanted to help my mom with things for the house. We were really scared, but we went through with it.”

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The US has recognised Edmundo Gonzalez as president-elect of Venezuela following elections on 28 July. The incumbent President, Nicolas Maduro, has always assured he himself won the vote despite evidence to prove he did not 🇻🇪

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Venezuela’s ‘Iron Lady’ Pleads With Trump to Save Her Country’s Democracy In a series of rare in-depth interviews, Venezuela’s opposition leader called life in hiding “a difficult test” and asserted that Mr. Trump could gain an early “foreign policy victory” by pushing Nico...

“We Venezuelans did everything the international community asked of us,” she said, a reference to the millions of people who risked retaliation to vote for her movement. “Now it’s time for the international community to do its part.”
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Hello. Intro time! I'm a British freelance journalist, who is often in Colombia and sometimes Venezuela. Currently I am back in the UK. Interested in world politics, politically Latin America and the Middle East, human rights, migration, the environment and many other topics.