Issue Sep 24-30 2025: The dead bodies of three women were found in an apartment just south of Buenos Aires five days after they were reported missing. The three women, Morena Verdi (20), Brenda Del Castillo (20) and Lara Gutiérrez (15) appear to have been the victims of a drug trafficking mafia noted for its

Issue Sep 24-30 2025: It has become commonplace to hear that illegally-sourced gold has replaced cocaine as Colombia’s illicit money-maker of choice. Highly-placed government officials, NGOs, journalists, and even Colombian President Gustavo Petro himself have made this claim, which, despite being repeated over and over again in the country’s media, has yet to be held

Issue Sep 17-23 2025: The Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua called on the international community to hold the Nicaraguan government accountable for possible violations of the 1961 United Nations Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Issue Sep 17-23 2025: Peru’s Department of Amazonas was the setting for the country’s highest increase in cocaine production (45%) between 2023 and 2024, according to data from the National Commission for Development and Life Without Drugs (Devida). Between 2020 and 2024, coca cultivation along the Ecuadorian border almost tripled, climbing from 656 hectares to

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: The leader of the largest opposition coalition in Venezuela, Edmundo González Urrutia, has called on the “democratic governments of the world” to take a “firm position” and demand an “immediate cessation of arbitrary arrests” in his country.

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: Meditating on public security has become a daily ritual in Mexico. Morning talk shows offer details about rising and falling crime statistics, and images of criminals in handcuffs give the impression that the state is ultimately in control. But the reality on the ground is quite different: it is enough to

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: According to La Comisionada Nacional de los Derechos Humanos (CONADEH), the state of emergency “opens the door” for more disappearances to occur. The measure, which covers 226 municipalities, has been extended 23 times.

Issue Sep 03-09 2025: Several collectives representing mothers of the disappeared held a candlelight vigil on September 9 in front of the Government Palace in Culiacán, Mexico, in order to make visible their demand that officials intensify searches for the nearly 2,000 people who have gone missing in the region since an armed conflict began

Issue Sep 03-09 2025: Colombia’s notorious Clan del Golfo, a criminal paramilitary organization operating in hundreds of municipalities throughout the country, has renamed itself the Gaitanista Army of Colombia (EGC), and is growing stronger despite the government’s “total peace” initiative.

Issue Sep 03-09 2025: It’s no secret that Hugo Motta, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, and Davi Alcolumbre, President of the Senate, are plotting behind the scenes to approve a “light amnesty,” a proposal the press treats as a reasonable alternative to the possibility of freeing former President Jair Bolsonaro from prison.