After over a decade of enjoying a “good image” among Colombians, the Colombian Armed Forces have had a year marked by a series of scandals.

The Bukele Administration will continue using recycled FMLN policies of utilizing the Army to combat crime in El Salvador and to recover territories dominated by gangs in 17 municipalities. 

–Written by Aaron Freeman— Ten years after the soft coup against José Manuel Zelaya, Honduras faces political and economic turmoil that is driving its people out of their homes, places of work, and classrooms and into the streets to protest against President Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH).

A Nicaraguan think tank finds that the critical loss of civil liberties and judicial power under the Orteguista “dictatorship” indicates that the government is an “authoritarian regime.”

If democracy is in crisis, will journalism also reflect this crisis?

The recent photograph of the Salvadoran migrants Óscar Martínez and his young daughter Valeria face down in the Rio Grande after drowning in the river has sent shockwaves throughout the world, revealing a new and much more disturbing side of the migrant crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s exploitation of the Amazon rainforest could be cause for prosecution in the International Criminal Court by French lawyers, as a crime against humanity, and companies that help his project could be considered complicit.

–Written by Caleb Sabatka– Bolivian President Evo Morales claims that the controversial campaign promises made to “achieve 100% voting in Morochata were misinterpreted.” According to PáginaSIETE of La Paz, Article 119 of the Ley de Régimen Electoral states that propaganda that implies the “offering of money or a prebend of any kind” is prohibited. Yerko

On June 17, the Mexican Government presented Agenda 2030, an agreement approved in 2015 by 193 members of the United Nations that aims to transform the world by promoting “sustained and inclusive economic growth, social development and environmental protection.”

Óscar Andrade, a candidate for the presidency of the predominant Uruguayan political group, the Frente Amplio, spoke on an act of the 1808 List, in which cultural proposals drafted by the group were presented.