The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Juan Méndez, rejected the Mexican government’s take on the UN’s report and denounced “widespread” torture in Mexican police stations. 

According to a report, since 1990 Colombia has had 11,073 registered victims of landmines; and President Santos has set aside land for the Museum of Memory dedicated to the ongoing armed conflict.

Rio de Janeiro’s Military Police (PM) force has started the takeover of the Complexo da Maré favela communities from the national army forces currently stationed there.