A Chilean judge convicted 106 former secret police officers for the abduction of political dissidents who disappeared under General Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship.

A recent study of politically motivated murders in Colombia, between 2005 and 2015, revealed that authorities failed to apprehend a killer in 58% of cases. Crimes of this nature threaten the stability of implementing the newly passed peace agreement.

After the peace agreement was reached between the FARC and the government, small towns are benefiting from microcredit as they try to revitalize their economy.

The Regional Office of South America under the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned the use of “excessive force” by the Brazilian military police to suppress protests and demonstrations in São Paolo.

With the resignation of Juan Fernando Cristo from the Ministry of the Interior, the government of Colombia has lost its third ally from that has defended the peace agreement with FARC and its implementation.

“The gringos have confessed,” regarding the high rates of violence connected to drug trafficking in Mexico.

Close to a thousand civilians were killed by El Salvador’s own government in the El Mozote massacre of 1981 and now an ex reporter from The New York Times has shared his experience several decades later. Raymond Bonner returned to El Salvador to tell his story in an interview as part of the inauguration for

Achieving women’s rights is a long process for many countries, particularly in Guatemala, where some women have been fighting a specific case for over thirty years.

On May 18, 2017, many reacted to the Constitutional Court decision on fast-tracking the process of development of the Havana Agreement.

The San Blas massacre, the first of several killings known to have been perpetrated by police officers to punish gang members and other civilians, took place two years ago and is still being denied by the authorities.