Issue Aug 27-Sep 02 2025: The Nicaraguan government, led by husband and wife co-Presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, is systematically carrying out enforced disappearances since April 2018, according to a report prepared by a group of human rights organizations.

Issue Aug 27-Sep 02 2025: A Datafolha poll found that 46% of Brazilians viewed former President Jair Bolsonaro’s public security policies as better than current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s, while 29% believed the opposite. This sentiment emerged despite a major study, the Atlas da Violência 2025, showing that Brazil recorded 45,747 homicides in

Issue Aug 27-Sep 02 2025: The organization Mothers and Relatives of Detained and Disappeared Uruguayans (Famidesa) has confirmed the identity of Ricardo Altamirano Alza, a Uruguayan citizen who was kidnapped and murdered in 1976 during Argentina’s military dictatorship.

Issue Aug 20-26 2025: President Gustavo Petro of Colombia is known for his “total peace” policy aimed at encouraging negotiations instead of conflict with drug cartels and criminal organizations.

Issue Aug 20-26 2025: On July 7th of last year, Ismael Zambada, known as “El Mayo,” spoke with Proceso Magazine. Zambada recounted the places in which he has sought refuge, spanning 40 years. Two and a half weeks after sharing his praise of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s policy of “hugs, not bullets,” an

Issue Aug 13-19 2025: The August arrest of Hermelinda M.O., alias the “Hyena,” underscores the increasingly visible role that women are playing in the violence affecting Mexico.

Issue Aug 13-19 2025: “In Colombia, there is more territory than nation and more nation than state.” This is what journalist Luis Carlos Galán used to repeat, quoting Rodrigo Escobar Navia. The phrase is an exemplification of the nation’s armed conflict, caused by a decade-long backlash that arose from the 2016 Peace Accord with the

Issue Aug 13-19 2025: A humanitarian group, Socorro Jurídico Humanitario (SJH), has confirmed that the number of deaths while under incarceration during El Salvadors ongoing state of emergency has reached 435.

Issue Aug 01-12 2025: Five months after President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the creation of a special group to clarify the Ayotzinapa case, there is no clarity about what the new strategy is or the direction of the new lines of investigation committed by the president, said Vidulfo Rosales Sierra, the lawyer for the parents of

Issue Aug 01-12 2025: In March 2022, President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele implemented the emergency regime to fight gangs, a controversial measure considered by various international organizations as a violation of human rights.