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.

On the very day Colombia’s defense minister denied the existence of paramilitary groups, local media reported the assassination of three human and civil rights workers by neo-paras.

Delegations for both the government and the Army of National Liberation Army (ELN) recently met in what is widely considered to be the final chance at reaching a peace agreement.

On January 12 and 13, the journalistic Latin American delegation, Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa (SIP), traveled to Washington DC to advocate for the freedom of the press.

On the left and on the right, from the Havana Accords to the Congress in Bogotá, openly or covertly, the actors in Colombia’s decades-long armed conflict are working together to bestow pardons upon themselves in exchange for peace.

In the wake of decades of armed conflict, millions of Colombians are suffering from the lingering effects of the upheaval on their physical and mental health, a situation that poses a serious challenge for the country as the newly fashioned peace process unfolds.

–Researched and written by Kathleen Crotty As more scandals are uncovered and more politicians are accused of corruption, Brazilians are quickly losing faith in their governing institutions.