In Peru, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Lima Wednesday to demand interim President Dina Boluarte step down. Boluarte came to power following the ouster of leftist President Pedro Castillo in December of last year. Dozens of protesters were killed in the ensuing crackdown by police and security forces.

Bernardo Arévalo is the son of former President Juan José Arévalo, Guatemala’s first democratically elected leader, who pushed for revolutionary social reforms when he was in office from 1945 to ’51.

Unknown to the cop who murdered "Nahel M." at a traffic stop, video caught him saying “You are going to get a bullet in the head.” Protests against repression of dissent were already planned for June 28, but violence had already gripped the suburbs, and at least 40 vehicles have been burned.