El Salvador has a dark history of clandestine prisons and police brutality.

Environmentalist Berta Cáceres, the general coordinator of the Council of Indigenous and Popular Organizations of Honduras (Copinh), was murdered for actively opposing the Agua Zarca dam project, a dam largely unwelcome by the local indigenous population.

On July 27, 2017, the Paraguayan People’s Army (EPP) kidnapped Paraguayan tenant farmer Franz Wiebe near La Yeya ranch in San Pedro.

Colombia is beginning to have its first taste of peace as former guerrilla fighters turn in their arms. But any lasting resolution to the country’s decades-long conflict will require a more complex process of national reconciliation, which is something that Colombia’s current political economy, of all things, might not promote.

The Special Rapporteur of the United Nations (UN) on Torture, Juan Méndez, confirmed that torture remains a widespread practice in Mexico.

Police in the region have gathered in El Salvador to plan their work against gang structures. 

A recent crime report in Honduras revealed that top security officials suppressed internal investigations of the state police network who allegedly sold weapons to the Colombian guerrilla group, FARC, in the early 2000s.

A new study published by the Department of Strategic Investigation questions the so-called “wave of violence” that was used by Mexican president Felipe Calderón to justify his war on drugs.

Álvaro Villarraga, director of the Agreement for Truth at the National Center for Historic Memory, is a political scientist and a former member of the Colombia’s Popular Liberation Army (EPL).

The military police force in the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil went on strike on February 3 to demand a salary increase from the state government.