While the FARC and ELN continue separate negotiations with the Colombian government, another guerrilla group shows little indication of abandoning its violent struggle against the state.

Murders of dozens of environmental leaders across Honduras have gone unpunished by authorities.

The FARC accused ex-President Álvaro Uribe of pushing his own political agenda amid peace talks. 

Waves of murders and attacks on members of the transgender community have propelled a movement of Mexican human rights organizations.

The mayor of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Armando Calidonio Álvaro, has announced he will be implementing a new series of crime prevention measures in his crime-beleaguered city.

Deportations are fueling gang violence in Central America, resulting in skyrocketing numbers of asylum applications and an upsurge of unaccompanied children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

On October 13th, Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos attended two gatherings with international organizations to discuss the current state of the peace process in Colombia.

Panamanian president Juan Carlos Varela announced that, following a recent fatal shooting in the northern port city of Colón, he will be reviewing his nation’s gun laws.

The municipality of Caluco closed the first center for displaced refugees on July 8th, 2016.

On October 11th, the decree that denies parole to those convicted of crimes committed during the dictatorship (of Pinochet) was debated.