Alejandro Antalich, vice president of the Center of Pharmacies of Uruguay, recently announced that, beginning in April, Uruguayan pharmacies will retail cannabis products and derivatives.

The Colombian government persists in denying the existence of paramilitary groups in the country.

Despite some changes throughout the region, prison is still the most common form to combat the spread of drugs throughout Latin America.

The Bolivian government defended its recently passed “Ley de la Coca” in front of the international community at a conference in Vienna, Austria.

Recent attacks by paramilitary groups in the department of Chocó have called into question Colombia’s peace.

Making peace after a half-century-long conflict would be daunting with the best diplomatic tools at hand.

El Salvador has a dark history of clandestine prisons and police brutality.

Environmentalist Berta Cáceres, the general coordinator of the Council of Indigenous and Popular Organizations of Honduras (Copinh), was murdered for actively opposing the Agua Zarca dam project, a dam largely unwelcome by the local indigenous population.

On July 27, 2017, the Paraguayan People’s Army (EPP) kidnapped Paraguayan tenant farmer Franz Wiebe near La Yeya ranch in San Pedro.

Colombia is beginning to have its first taste of peace as former guerrilla fighters turn in their arms. But any lasting resolution to the country’s decades-long conflict will require a more complex process of national reconciliation, which is something that Colombia’s current political economy, of all things, might not promote.