El Salvador’s president, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, and the FMLN government are working to craft a new law that would allow military and ex-guerrilla members to avoid penal persecutions for crimes committed during the civil war.

Every year on March 24, Argentines take to the streets to remember the anniversary of the coup in 1976 that marked the beginning of Argentina’s military dictatorship.

Rodolfo Walsh, an Argentinian author and journalist kidnapped in 1977, is now being honored with the opening of an exhibit about his work.

Fernando Oquendo Estrada, nicknamed “Bigotes” (Mustache), was shot and killed by the Special Commands Operation of the Police earlier this month.

Alejandro Antalich, vice president of the Center of Pharmacies of Uruguay, recently announced that, beginning in April, Uruguayan pharmacies will retail cannabis products and derivatives.

The Colombian government persists in denying the existence of paramilitary groups in the country.

Despite some changes throughout the region, prison is still the most common form to combat the spread of drugs throughout Latin America.

The Bolivian government defended its recently passed “Ley de la Coca” in front of the international community at a conference in Vienna, Austria.

Recent attacks by paramilitary groups in the department of Chocó have called into question Colombia’s peace.

Making peace after a half-century-long conflict would be daunting with the best diplomatic tools at hand.