Migrant children are a product of drug cartels says the U.S.; “Self-Defense” groups say guns and drugs were planted while drug gangs tortured and threatened their families; meanwhile the legislature of the state of Sinaloa restricts media activity.

The Chilean Supreme Court convicted six ex-agents of the secret police of Augusto Pinochet for the imprisonment and kidnapping of a young member of the opposition in 1974.  The Working Group Against Forced Disappearance of Guatemala pushed for a bill to help determine the whereabouts of the victims of disappearance and provide compensation for those

Margarita Murillo was shot and killed in the village of El Planón, located within the municipality of Villanueva in northern Honduras.  She had been receiving death threats. 

Seizures by Nicaraguan National Police of nearly 20,000 illegal firearms during a recent five year span have been a key factor in reducing the homicide rate in the country, authorities said.