A “profitable industry” has sprung up around the missing normalistas, while most Mexicans aren’t buying the government’s take on their demise. The case of the missing students and the government’s unreliable investigation are continuing to generate headlines in Mexican papers close to a year after the incident.

El Salvador is launching its war on gangs with a plan to use massive arrests and repression to retake territories where gangs dominate.

Lodged in the foothills of Colombia’s Western Cordillera mountain range, the town of El Mango has made news for its dedication to national peace.

Despite the ongoing negotiations in Havana between the FARC rebel group and the government, Colombia’s transition into a post-conflict state is certain to be a long and difficult process. Even with a peace agreement, there is no instant solution to Colombia’s insurgency struggles.

In Bolivia, the creation of a new truth commission is seeking to investigate cases of forced disappearances through the unique powers it has been granted.

Nearly a year after the disappearance of 43 students from the Mexican state of Guerrero, a group of experts from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights released their findings, tearing down the official report released by the government.

NGO’s warn that cases of forced disappearance “are no longer limited to the political,” while critics say President Peña Nieto, like President Calderón before him, is combating narcos with an ineffective strategy.

Will the guerrilla group turn in their weapons, or just stop using them?  And what has been their policy on sex as a weapon?

High-ranking officials of the Argentine Catholic Church were implicated in the appropriation of babies from detainees who were held in Córdoba province’s La Perla clandestine concentration camp, said Horacio Verbitsky, the head of the CELS human rights group. 

The mayor of Santa Tecla and party leader Roberto d’Aubuisson Munguía took advantage of a tribute to his father, the founder of the ARENA party, to propose some changes.