Conflicts between the poor communities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the courts have been tense to say the least, leaving citizens fearful of the same people who swear to protect them and their rights.

The peace process reached the point of no return when the FARC handed over their weapons to the UN in the Buenavista district of the Meta department.

Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, human rights violator from the last Argentine military dictatorship, has died at 90 years of age in Córdoba.

In Nicaragua, cases of police brutality continue to appear.

Ivan Briscoe, an expert in armed conflict monitoring and Latin American Programs Director at the think tank Crisis Group, discusses the issues of society and the Mara Salvatrucha gang.

Police brutality remains a complex topic in Central America.

Last year, the FARC and the Colombian government signed a peace agreement to stop the outrageous violence rate, at least in part.

Escalating violence in Rio led President Michel Temer to order the Armed Forces in to oversee both civil and military police operations.

Last year, Latin America has seen terrible increases in drug production and profits as well as violence and homicides, and it´s no coincidence that they go hand in hand.

“The government has only processed 12 of the 34 measures that had been agreed to for the first year of the peace process,” denounced the coordinator of the report, Joaquín Sánchez, during a press conference held in the European Parliament.