–-Researched and written by Katie Benisch— Colombia has faced a series of social leaders being not only attacked, but assassinated as well. These leaders held positions in their communities as teachers and politicians and have been distinguished by their care for social issues. Fellow Colombians are trying to make sense of these acts of violence

There were no deaths directly caused by the long-running Colombian conflict in 2017.

Education in Mexico has taken bold steps to prepare students for the reality of the society that they live in.

On June 19, 2018, Minister Óscar Aguad of Argentina announced the government’s intention to have the Armed Forces involved in Homeland Security.

The Daniel Ortega government blockade has caused a new crisis and stagnation in the Diálogo Nacional, mediated by bishops of the Episcopal Conference.

After brokering a peace deal with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) in 2016, the Colombian government is currently working with the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) to establish a peace agreement in its fifth round of dialogue.

Two of Mexico’s most well-established and prolific drug cartels, the Cártel de Sinaloa and the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), have expanded their financial and supply networks in the last twenty years to at least fifty countries around the world and are now present in West Africa, Southeast Asia, and Europe, according to official reports

The Colombian government was convicted by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the case of the murder of Nelson Carvajal in 1998, considering that it failed to guarantee his right to freedom of expression.

As survivors of the 1968 and 1971 massacres in Mexico remember their fallen comrades, Comité 68 calls on presidential candidates to address the impunity that poisons Mexico’s social and political life.

A bill that proposes an abbreviated legal procedure for the submission of organized armed groups to the judicial system has been presented a second time in the Colombian House of Representatives.