A recent riot in one of Mexico’s many overcrowded prisons has led to multiple deaths and injuries, and raises a lot of questions about the nation’s judicial system. 

With Colombia’s chronic armed conflict seemingly coming to a close, at least as far as the FARC is concerned, politicians are looking towards the future in search of answers for their crime and employment problems. 

Correspondence between the US embassy in Honduras and the US State Department that was recently brought to light proves the extent to which other Latin American countries contributed to the downfall of one of their own. 

Actress Kate del Castillo has asked a federal judge for protection against any order of detention, presentation, or arrest that could rid her of her freedom in Mexican territory.

The Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humano (CNDH) presented a recommendation to the Marines in response to six cases that ranged from torture to sexual violence. 

The final peace agreement is on track for being finalized, but now is when the real difficulties begin.

The president, the chief of the FARC, and five representative victims have been nominated by a Norweigan parliamentarian who nominated last year’s winner.

Armed bands have ordered citizens to abandon the streets, thus paralyzing entire neighborhoods in Venezuela, while they celebrate wakes for their fallen leaders and protest against supposed executions carried out by the police.  

The police have captured four of the 17 military men accused of the murder of six Jesuit priests in November 1989. Three of the arrests happened hours after a United States court confirmed the extradiction towards Spain of the ex-viceminister of Security, Inocente Orlando Montano, to face an open trial before the National Audience.  

Given the failures of the drug war to contain the trade and use of narcotics, two prominent leaders in Europe are now calling for serious discussion about the validity of the initiative.