Issue Oct 08-14 2025: El Salvador is electing a new head of the Human Rights Defense Office (PDDH). However, the candidates interviewed are tailored to the regime.

Issue Oct 08-14 2025: A recent jailbreak by 20 high-risk prisoners from the Fraijanes 2 prison in Guatemala marks a tipping point in the fraught history of that country’s prison system.

Issue Oct 08-14 2025: A 68-year-old woman was violently evicted from her home in the Popotla neighborhood, where she had lived for more than 50 years. Despite having a statute of limitations in her favor, armed men broke into her home, threatened to kill her, and stole her belongings.

Issue Oct 01-07 2025: A new book by Jorge Schindler Etchegaray, entitled The Chilean Schindler’s List II, engages directly with Chilean historical memory while also providing a universal tale of resistance against dictatorships more generally.

Issue Oct 01-07 2025: The Brazilian researcher argues that Brazil’s military dictatorship played an active role in Allende’s overthrow, providing political, economic, and military support and training DINA agents in intelligence and repression techniques.

Issue Oct 01-07 2025: A new report documents ten priests murdered between 2018 and 2024; most dioceses avoid reporting out of fear or to handle cases internally; an average of 26 attacks are committed each week.

Issue Sep 24-30 2025: Mexico’s missing persons rate is only a fraction of many other countries. However, the lower rate is not due to an improvement in infrastructure but rather the underreporting of missing persons.

Issue Sep 24-30 2025: The dead bodies of three women were found in an apartment just south of Buenos Aires five days after they were reported missing. The three women, Morena Verdi (20), Brenda Del Castillo (20) and Lara Gutiérrez (15) appear to have been the victims of a drug trafficking mafia noted for its

Issue Sep 24-30 2025: It has become commonplace to hear that illegally-sourced gold has replaced cocaine as Colombia’s illicit money-maker of choice. Highly-placed government officials, NGOs, journalists, and even Colombian President Gustavo Petro himself have made this claim, which, despite being repeated over and over again in the country’s media, has yet to be held

Issue Sep 17-23 2025: The Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua called on the international community to hold the Nicaraguan government accountable for possible violations of the 1961 United Nations Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.