Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: Within President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s six-year term, 89 Indigenous activists and environmentalists have been killed.

Issue Feb 28-Mar 05 2024: After recording nearly 260 homicides last year, as criminal gangs continue to war over drug territory, Rosario stands alone as Argentina’s bloodiest city.

Issue Feb 21-27 2024: Amid Mexico’s ongoing drug war and its devastating consequences, which include frequent kidnappings, disappearances, and other criminal violence that claims tens of thousands of lives each year, a new force has emerged.

Issue Feb 21-27 2024: “Even though we’re peasants, we love our children. We aren’t going to accept what the government says.”

Issue Feb 21-27 2024: On the sixth day of the trial against former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, bombshell testimony by a key witness was given naming high level political figures involved in cases of corruption.

—Researched and Written by Natalie Gales— Issue Feb 14-20 2024: Since the beginning of 2024, Colombian prison guards have repeatedly been targeted by gang members’ attacks. This came to a head following the death of Jesús Cárdenas, a guard who worked at a prison in San Sebastián de Ternera, Cartagena. In response, the Instituto Nacional

Issue Feb 14-20 2024: When Pablo Neruda passed, on the evening of September 23, 1973, official reports concluded that he had died of complications from prostate cancer.

Issue Feb 14-20 2024: Brazilian councilwoman and activist Marielle Franco became an international symbol after her assassination in Rio de Janeiro in 2018.

Issue Feb 14-20 2024: Since the beginning of 2024, taxi drivers and their passengers in Acapulco, Taxco, Chilpancingo, and Tixtla have been targeted by violent organized crime.

Issue Feb 14-20 2024: The recent focus of protests in Colombia has been on the alleged attempted coup d’état that President Petro spoke of, citing a “breakdown of institutions” due to the Supreme Court’s failure to elect a new prosecutor.