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Byline: the Monitor's Editorial Board Abstract: The first official plan to search for those Chileans who disappeared during the country's dictatorship strengthens the role of truth in how post-conflict nations [...]

Byline: Ruxandra Guidi Last April, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa took his weekly radio show 'Enlace Cuidadano' on the road to the Italian city of Genoa. He wasn't there for the [...]

Byline: Whitney Eulich Mexico's President Enrique Pena Neito was in Guerrero this week for the first time since 43 students were kidnapped and likely murdered there more than two months [...]

Byline: Michael Holtz A new verdict is in for the high-profile anti-graft campaign launched last year by Chinese President Xi Jinping - and international experts appear unimpressed. China ranks 100th [...]

Byline: Nick Squires The idea was to reach out to Muslims, but Pope Francis got a distinctly prickly reception from his hosts during his first trip to Turkey. In a [...]

Byline: Francine Kiefer Americans got a preview Thursday of what will be on the minds of the presidents of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras when they meet with President Obama [...]

Byline: Lydia Tomkiw Three months after the kidnapping of over 200 school girls by Boko Haram, Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai met today with Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan and urged [...]

Byline: our correspondent Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe has ordered the nation's remaining white farmers to be booted off their farms in order that the land be given to black Zimbabweans. [...]

Byline: Christa Case Bryant On paper, Abu Kamal is a policeman in Gaza. He collects a monthly paycheck from the Palestinian Authority (PA), which hired him in 2001. But when [...]

Byline: Seth Robbins In the more than two years since El Salvador's two largest and deadliest street gangs - the Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, and Barrio 18 - agreed to [...]

Byline: the Monitor's Editorial Board During February's protests in Ukraine, the world witnessed one of those tipping points when an elected government, entrusted to keep the peace, ends up killing [...]

Byline: Andrew Rosati It didn't take long for Venezuela's warring politicians to start pointing fingers last night, attempting to turn the deaths of at least two people killed in nationwide [...]

Byline: Fred Weir Russia's best-known prisoner, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, may soon be freed from prison, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday, some 10 years after his criminal prosecution and the wholesale dismantling [...]

Byline: Fred Weir It's not an official boycott. But for the first time in over a decade, neither the President of the United States nor any member of his family [...]

Byline: Fred Weir President Vladimir Putin contends that Russia's gay citizens are 'absolutely full-fledged and equal in rights' with all other Russians. But critics argue that's legalistic window-dressing which serves [...]

Byline: Steven Bodzin 'In Chile, the skirt's in charge,' blared the headline of Santiago tabloid La Cuarta the day after Michelle Bachelet and Evelyn Matthei advanced to a second round [...]

Byline: Sara Miller Llana After more than 1,000 days spent as hostages in the African Sahel, four Frenchmen arrived in Paris to cries of joy Wednesday, having been freed from [...]

Byline: Mike Eckel Dispense with any doubts about who the Alpha Dog in Russia is. For that matter, you might as well apply that characterization to the world stage, where [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson Iran today made a surprise release of nearly a dozen prominent political prisoners, including award-winning human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, on the eve of President Hassan Rouhani's [...]

Byline: Joseph J. Schatz No more political prisoners in Myanmar? That's what President Thein Sein is promising the world, by the end of the year. His reformist government made a [...]

Byline: Andrew Rosati Jailed Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni, often referred to as 'Hugo Chavez's political prisoner,' was freed on Friday after spending more than three years in detention. Following petitions [...]

Byline: Andrew Rosati In Venezuela, Hugo Chavez's successor seems to be turning toward big business for help in ending rampant scarcities of basic consumer goods and an almost 30 percent [...]

Byline: Sara Miller Llana, Bastien Inzaurralde French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault owns two houses and a garage valued at 1.2 million euros, a car and 1988 Volkswagen Kombi van, and [...]

Byline: Kristen Chick Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi announced a state of emergency and a curfew in the three Suez Canal provinces where deadly violence has flared for three days. At [...]

Byline: Peter Grier This week President Obama outlined a sweeping package of proposed changes to America's gun laws, including a federal ban on the manufacture and sale of new assault [...]

Byline: Patrik Jonsson As Barack Obama last week amassed his political forces in favor of the first Congressional gun control package in nearly two decades, gun owners too raced into [...]

Byline: Joshua Mitnick Mahmoud Abbas touched off a storm of debate in the Middle East over the weekend after the Palestinian president seemingly conceded the 'right of return' for Palestinian [...]

Byline: Patrik Jonsson Two days after Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer declared her state won't confer driver's licenses and other state benefits to newly-documented immigrants under Obama's 'deferred action' immigration policy, [...]

Byline: Linda Feldmann In the US Supreme Court, Arizona and the Obama administration fought to a draw over the state's tough anti-illegal-immigration law. But politically, President Obama looks to be [...]

Byline: Joseph Kayira Malawi's President Joyce Banda has announced her intention to repeal a number of laws that have made Malawi into a pariah state, from its ban on homosexuality [...]

Byline: Patrik Jonsson President Obama on Friday proposed to sweeten a deal from Washington to entice banks to modify payments, lower loan principal, and expand eligibility in order to help [...]

Byline: Fred Weir President Dmitry Medvedev has called on Russian lawmakers to consider 'chemical castration' for child molesters - a response to what some officials call an unprecedented wave of [...]

Byline: Erik Stier Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has 'favorably received' a road map that would delineate his departure and ensure a smooth transition of power, according to a government [...]

Byline: Aaron Nelsen Susana Obando Valenzuela sits on the edge of her salmon-colored couch inside the government-built shack she reluctantly calls home and remembers the day that changed her life [...]

Byline: Kristen Chick Tunisia's new government met today for the first time, taking initial steps toward distancing itself from old regime and the ruling party that so heavily influenced it. [...]

Byline: Fred Weir Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is vowing to crack down hard on ultranationalist extremists after weekend riots by soccer fans, egged on by neo-Nazi groups, led to a [...]

Byline: Robert Marquand A sweeping and blunt proposal by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to strip French citizenship from persons of foreign origin who endanger police is bringing storms of protest [...]

Byline: Fred Weir Jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky said he will go on a hunger strike until Russian President Dmitry Medvedev explains why a newly-passed law isn't being implemented [...]

Byline: Linda Feldmann Thursday, May 6, is the National Day of Prayer, as proclaimed by President Obama. But this year, the annual ritual that began in 1952 is taking place [...]

Byline: Sara Miller Llana If any place has spiraled downward in Mexico's bloody fight against organized crime, it is Ciudad Juarez, the grim border town where two Americans were shot [...]

Byline: the Monitor's Editorial Board Congress, in a burst of hearings, has a sudden interest in Mexico's war on drug traffickers - and the spillover into the US. If this [...]