Authorities in El Salvador have reported 5,227 women murdered between 2003 and 2015.

The Organization of American States (OAS)’s General Secretary restated the commitment of the Organization to provide proposals that help fight crime.

Now that the government and the ELN have announced a formal phase in negotiations that would begin in Ecuador within the next two months, there is hope that a “complete peace” will finally be achieved in Colombia, said President Santos.

The possibility of approval for the law that authorizes the use and the production of cannabis has sparked initial calculations of the dimension this market.

Seeking to alter the global approach to the initiative against drugs, Mexico looks to lay out a plan at a special assembly of the UN soon. 

Two human rights NGOs will report their findings regarding the behavior of police in Venezuela soon. 

As peace talks persist with one leftist group, and begin to hint at materialization with another, paramilitary groups on the right are taking advantage as more and more grassroots political leaders are assassinated. 

An ex-soldier, who is now deceased, is still providing testimony posthumously today, through a video recording. 

As peace talks come to a close between Colombia and guerrilla group the FARC, the possibility of peace talks between the South American country and another guerrilla group looms on the horizon. 

A new bi-partisan legislative measure to fight gangs in El Salvador’s prisons was passed earlier this month that will restrict the rights of gang members in seven prisons.