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.

Journalists in Mexico have been murdered and assaulted and, in most cases, their attackers have walked away without facing charges.

The Mexican tequila industry is renowned for producing high quality beverages through the use of world-class distillation and storage processes.

On May 10, 2017, activist Miriam Elizabeth Rodríguez Martínez was murdered in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, putting the population’s human rights in danger, as Rodríguez Martínez was one of the most influential activists.