The Supreme Court of Justice reversed a decision by the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI), ordering the Attorney General (PGR) to release the names of disappeared victims of the past 80 years.

Twenty-seven years after the end of the Pinochet dictatorship, there was no record of disappeared detainees targeted on the basis of their sexual orientation.

Twenty-five years after the Chapultepec Peace Agreement that ended El Salvador’s twelve-year civil war, violence remains a persisting issue that harshly hits the country.

Rodrigo Londoño, top leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is rethinking the date for the guerrillas’ disarmament on the grounds of unstable transitional infrastructure at the fault of the Colombian Government.

In a public hearing, Manuel Antonio Noriega denied any fault for the Albrook massacre—the executions of officials after the 1989 failed coup d’état—and accused friends of the murdered officials.

The Sierra Tarahumara is a zone in Chihuahua, Mexico, which shares its border with Sinaloa and Coahuila. More importantly, this zone is one of the few remaining forested areas in Mexico, and is viciously exploited by the timber and pulp industry.

In Chile’s Araucanía region, conflict has been brewing between the Mapuche indigenous group and the central government since the country’s transition to democracy.

Twenty-five years after the official end of the armed conflict in El Salvador, families continue to search for the remains of their loved ones who were “disappeared.”

The “fast-tracking” of reforms, which also allows the rapid passage of laws and regulations, is not a good idea. The proposed court of “Justicia Especial para la Paz” (Special Justice for Peace) is one such reformation with questionable outcomes.

Whoever shot Berta Cáceres forgot to check if her fellow activist, Gustavo Castro, was also completely dead before leaving the scene.