The Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos (National Human Rights Commission; CNDH) has sued the Attorney General’s Office in Mexico over human rights violations involving Mexican federal and state police forces in Nochixtlán, Oaxaca following open fire on citizens and the excessive use of force. 

The United States Government sentenced Francisco Colorado Cessa to twenty years in prison for laundering money for Los Zetas, an organized crime organization.

On October 10, Manuel Hernández Pasión, mayor of Huitzilan de Serdán, Puebla, was shot dead on a road near his municipality.

The genocide trial of Guatemala’s former dictator, Efraín Ríos Montt, has resumed since the decision of the country’s Constitutional Court to separate the trials concerning Ríos Montt and the former military intelligence chief, José Rodríguez.

Mexican journalists Javier Valdez Cárdenas and Miroslava Breach were both assassinated within three months of each other in Mexico.

Although violence in Colombia is declining due to the Ceasefire with the ELN (National Liberation Army), the situation in the regions of Chocó, the North of Santander, Arauca and Nariño may be fragile.

Prisons across Latin America are becoming hotbeds for the proliferation of organized crime, spreading outside of confinement to affect public safety.

The civil society group, “Salvando Vidas, desde San Pedro Sula al Hemisferio,” held an event on October 11, at the Salon Emperador III of the Copantl Convention Center.

October 7th marked the fortieth anniversary of the first time the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo took to the square with the iconic white handkerchiefs wrapped around their heads.

According to the majority of people who live in Rio, drug users are to blame for the violence in the city to a greater extent than the dealers are.