Emanuele Ottolenghi reflected on the Cartes administration’s efforts to curb the activities of terrorist groups in the tri-border area.

Nineteen years after the assassination of comedian Jaime Garzón, José Miguel Narváez has been convicted to thirty years for his murder.

Issues over land, the drug war, armed conflict, and the absence of the state have prevented peace from reaching the people of Cauca, Colombia.

Mexico’s president-elect, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO, as he is popularly known, will have the daunting task of rebuilding nearly everything when he takes office in a few months, but he also has the opportunity to transition “from barbarism to civilization.”

Gabriel de Jesús Rincón Amado may win his fight for freedom by admitting how the murders of five Soacha youths came about in August 2008.

Fredy Santiago Díaz encourages Congress to enact gun control.

Protests against Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega have intensified and diversified, expanding into cities in the Northern and Pacific region of the country.

Finding peace is a high priority for Mexico, though there are many ways of approaching the situation.

Ortega described masked paramilitaries seen cooperating closely with his security forces against the protesters as “volunteer police.”

–Researched and written by Rebecca Smith— On July 3, 2018, a Chilean court convicted nine retired members of the military for the murder of beloved folk singer, Víctor Jara, under Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in the 1970s. In the weeks following the trial, news sources covered Jara’s life, death, and reactions to the verdict.