The murder of Ecuadorian journalists Javier Ortega, Paúl Rivas, and Efraín Segarra, all from El Comercio of Quito, were murdered by a group of FARC dissidents led by Walter Arizala Vernaza, alias “Guacho.”

Fleeing persecution and the precarious situation in their home country, many Venezuelans have landed in the Dominican Republic.

Mexico provided aid to Nicaragua to control a forest fire.

The Ecuadorian government announced that negotiations would not be pursued in securing the release of two kidnapped journalists and their driver.

Colombia is noting an increased presence of Mexican drug dealers, according to an investigation from the organization Insight Crime and the Universidad del Rosario.

On March 23, 2018, now ex-president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PKK) was forced to resign as Peruvian head of state, a position he had held just since 2016, on accusations of corruption.

Over a century after the peace agreement was signed, ending the Pacific War and therefore the border dispute between Chile and Bolivia, discourse over the conflict has reemerged.

The increase in violence and dissent occurring in Colombia resulted in the kidnapping of three employees of El Comercio, an Ecuadorian newspaper.

With the recent publication of the Inter-American Commission on Human Right’s annual report came expressed concern for the continuous human rights violations committed in Cuba and Venezuela, as well as concern for the political situation present in Peru.

The two countries recently met to discuss the security situation and the need to increase protections on their shared border.