It has been more than a year since Donald Trump began tweeting about the “bad men” of the MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha.

Ten months after an Argentinian man was found dead, his family is still seeking justice and answers. According to Página/12 of Buenos Aires, Santiago Maldonado, a 28-year-old tattoo artist, had joined a road blockade protest on August 1, 2017. Security forces had evicted members of the Pu L community of indigenous Mapuche people from ancestral

Since April 18, 2018, demonstrators protesting President Daniel Ortega’s pension reforms have come into violent conflict with state police and paramilitary groups.

The government takes action as disappearances in Mexico increased by 40% since 2014, and numbers continue to rise.

When students from the National University of Engineering (UNI) in Nicaragua decided to protest against President Ortega, police responded with gunfire.

The discovery of a coca field suggests that drug traffickers are looking to improve and shift to newer, closer locations to their main consumer.

The highest authority of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) made an emphatic and controversial plea for legalization.

Horrifically, twelve politicians were assassinated during the first weekend of the state’s eighty-one municipal elections.

Radio journalist Juan Carlos Huerta was killed in Tabasco on May 15, coinciding with the anniversary of fellow journalist, Javier Valdez’s death. Huerta is the fourth journalist killed in Mexico this year.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights released its findings and recommendations following an investigation into the violence that erupted at the protests throughout Nicaragua in April.