Issue Apr 03-09 2024: For years, the primary source of hired killers for Mexico’s criminal organizations has been attributed to the country’s “ninis,” a term used to describe young people who are neither employed nor pursuing an education.

Issue Apr 03-09 2024: At the end of March in 2022, Nayib Bukele broke a secret pact between the government and El Salvador’s gangs. In response, the gang MS-13 killed 87 people.

Issue Apr 03-09 2024: In 2023, human rights and civil society organizations in Chile responded to delays in the government’s official commemoration ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the military coup d’etat of 1973 by taking the initiative and establishing their own memory sites.