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Guatemala’s newly elected president faces legal challenges
Guatemala is facing political turmoil following legal challenges posed to the country’s president-elect, Bernardo Arévalo. On Thursday, prosecutors moved to remove him and his party members of their immunity for allegedly making social media posts encouraging students to take over a university last year. Will Freeman, a fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, joined The World to talk about why and how this political development has unfolded and what it means for the country.
Reservation Courts Denied Justice By DOJ
Nearly 800,000 Native Americans living on reservations must rely on federal prosecutors to go after major crimes, including sexual assault, murder and other felonies, because state law enforcement agencies lack the legal right to intervene in tribal affairs. The process involves a written plea to federal prosecutors to pick up these cases which the tribal […]
Judge Releases Rocky Flats Report
Scott Schlegel reports from Denver on the latest twist in the increasingly unusual case of the prosecution of environmental crimes at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant. The judge in the case has released a secret grand jury report blasting the management of the plant and demanding indictments, along with a point-by-point rebuttal of the […]
Takeouts: Chicago court grapples with classified information in Mumbai terror case, listeners respond
TAKEOUT: Chicago Public Radio’s Rob Wildeboer reports on the difficulty that a Chicago federal court is having as it determines how to prosecute Tahawwur Rana, who was accused of involvement in the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai. Prosecutors have a considerable amount of information that they say will help tie Rana to the crime – […]