Appalling conditions, including overcrowding, lack of hygiene, and lack of medical care are creating an environment in El Salvador’s prison system in which human rights violations are often left unchallenged.

The president of the IACHR claimed that the Mexican government version of what happened in the Ayotzinapa case is little more than “fiction.”

Colombia’s Ombudsman Office has called upon authorities to take urgent measures to protect the civilian population from armed actions carried out by members of Frente Primero.

The president of Mexico’s PRI political party, Enrique Ochoa Reza, spoke against the initiative of Senator Jorge Luis Preciado, who proposed legalizing firearms to fight growing insecurity in the country.

Uruguayan legislators have set a date for a presentation that will propose the creation of a committee that will investigate the archives of the late colonel Elmar Castiglioni.

The state court of São Paulo, Brazil, has overturned a law that prohibited police from using rubber bullets against protesters, and restricted their use of non-fatal weapons such as tear gas.

After the original peace deal between the government and FARC rebels was rejected in a national referendum, the question for Colombia is how to move forward.

The Vatican and Episcopal Conference of Argentina (CEA) has announced that documents on Argentina’s military dictatorship owned by the Catholic Church are to be declassified.

The president of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo has offered new insights into Argentina’s former military dictatorship.

Colombian government officials are negotiating with FARC representatives in Havana, Cuba in an effort to reach a new peace agreement by the end of November 2016.