On Thursday, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights urged El Salvador to take "urgent measures" to protect the chronically ill woman, who sought an abortion that could save her life.
Testifying during the trial of ex-dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, a former soldier accuses Guatemala’s sitting president of participating in massacres of Mayan villagers.
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