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.

The city of Culiacán faced panic after ten were killed from confrontations between dozens of armed men.

On January 31, members of the FARC, the most prominent rebel group in Colombia, began the march towards peace.

Peace is possible without justice, but real lasting peace will require a strong state to break cultures of violence in Colombia.

As FARC guerrillas move to hand in their weapons, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace causes nerves amongst lawmakers and the Attorney General of Colombia.

The Supreme Court of Justice reversed a decision by the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI), ordering the Attorney General (PGR) to release the names of disappeared victims of the past 80 years.

Twenty-seven years after the end of the Pinochet dictatorship, there was no record of disappeared detainees targeted on the basis of their sexual orientation.

Twenty-five years after the Chapultepec Peace Agreement that ended El Salvador’s twelve-year civil war, violence remains a persisting issue that harshly hits the country.