Colombia’s government took unilateral action in the interest of peace recently, much to the chagrin of those looking for more bilateral action.  Now they’re being called out for it.

A key figure in the negotiations in Cuba was asked this recently, and his answers were promising. 

A violent struggle for power decades ago still echoes through the caverns of Chile’s society. 

Colombia’s Congress will hold extra sessions to debate the pending demobilization of thousands, if not tens of thousands of FARC guerrillas.

General José Guillermo García, who this year turned 83 years old, and who was Minister of Defense in the first years of the Salvadoran civil war, arrived in El Salvador on Friday, January 8 after the United States deported him.

Managua had the highest number of cases, but for the nation as a whole incidents of femicide were reduced.

On the one side are the necessary deals required for a workable peace deal. On the other are demands for justice and accountability. 

Chilean Justice ratified the sentences against officials of the feared National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), Augusto Pinochet’s secret police between 1973 and 1977, responsible for human rights violations including killings, kidnappings, and torture.   

The Salvadoran regime in the years before and during the Civil War systematized information on political enemies, in most cases to torture, kill, or disappear them.

Marijuana is about to make a legal reappearance.  After the resolution of the Supreme Court, which authorized four permits for the recreational use of pot, it looks like it could be decriminalized.