Issue Feb 18-24 2026: The new year has ushered in a host of problems for Colombia, given that the number of illegal armed organizations in the country has returned to levels not seen since 2011, when the peace process with the FARC was first initiated.

Issue Feb 18-24 2026: With Argentina nearing the fiftieth anniversary of the 1976 military coup, President Javier Milei’s government is considering moving the Subsecretaría de Derechos Humanos to a building in the Constitución neighborhood previously associated with the now-dissolved Ministry of Women, Gender, and Diversity, a move with potential symbolic significance.

Issue Feb 18-24 2026: Father Arnulfo Mina, a philosopher and graduate in religious studies, was born in Buenaventura 62 years ago and has been a resident of the Pacific coast for the last four decades. He has taken on the risk of mediating between guerrilla factions; mediating lacks clear protocols and legal guarantees. It often

Issue Feb 11-17 2026: Guatemala’s president, Bernardo Arévalo, has announced that there will be “no truce for criminals” as a new security strategy focused on the country’s capital of Guatemala City takes effect that is scheduled to last for fifteen days.

Issue Feb 11-17 2026: As Human Rights Watch’s new “World Report 2025” makes abundantly clear, the world has been unable to break the perennial cycle of impunity besetting it, decade after decade, leaving little hope that justice will prevail.

Issue Feb 11-17 2026: The mistake being made in the debate about the Security Amendment is leaving primary prevention uncovered. A large volume of insecurity stems from sociopolitical vulnerability, the correction of which occurs before police action.

Issue Feb 04-10 2026: The latest report from the Salvadoran NGO Socorro Jurídico Humanitario (Humanitarian Legal Aid) indicates that 94,844 Salvadorans have been captured to date under the country’s state of exception, among whom 470 have died in prison, including Blanca Osmilda Castro Quijada, a 60-year-old woman who lived in a gang-free community but who

Issue Feb 04-10 2026: A new report carried out by the NGO Mexico Evalúa entitled “Violence in Mexico: 2015-2025” indicates that lethal violence in the country has risen by 68.2% over the last ten years.

Issue Feb 04-10 2026: The government of Santa Fe, Argentina, has suspended at least 20 members of the police forces who took part in protests on February 10 and 11 in the city of Rosario.

Issue Jan 28-Feb 03 2026: The origins of the coca economy in Colombia date back to the waves of peasant colonization during the second half of the twentieth century, when thousands of poor rural families settled in marginal areas of the country, without deeds of property or access to legal markets.