Could we be seeing the end of the guerrilla cycle in Latin America and the Caribbean? 

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) renewed the mandate to expand the research for the 43 “normalistas” for six months, from October 31, 2015 until April 30, 2016.

The search for thousands of missing persons in Colombia will require years of work to come.  A government registry lists more than 106,000 victims.  The search is the result of an agreement between Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC guerrillas.

The state and the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts investigating the case of Ayotzinapa formalized their agreement to continue the mission of the Commission in the country.  Mexico’s government agreed to relaunch the search for the 43 Ayotzinapa normalistas missing in Iguala, Guerrero, since September 26, 2014.

Illegal fishing and Ecuadorian pirate ships are threatening the development of artisanal fisheries along the coast of Peru in Piura and Tumbes. Increasingly, fishermen that operate in the Northern Peruvian waters are being victimized by pirates hiding along the coast.

Polls conclude that many people are in favor of the Havana Agreement with hopes of peace.

Between 2007 and 2014, over four thousand reports on torture were filed before the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR). María Isabel Mazo Duarte and Adrián Ramírez López of the Mexican League for the Defense of Human Rights documented some of the cases.

The Center of Human Rights at the University of Washington (UWCHR) is suing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to make public the documents about military operatives directed by Sigfredo Ochoa Pérez.

The Standing Committee on Human Rights (CDPH) held a forum in which they exposed allegations of torture in the prisons of the Directorate of Legal Aid (DAJ) of the National Police, better known as “The Chipote.”  

The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) warns against some Latin American governments and their suppression of investigative media.