Issue Jun 12-17 2025: At first glance, the coin appeared to be an ordinary collector’s coin. One detail revealed it was not, as the center pictured former dictator Augusto Pinochet next to the phrase “By reason or force.” The coin does not stand out for its craftsmanship but rather for its significance and what it

Issue Jun 12-17 2025: Seven Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon have created their own vigilante organizations in the absence of an effective government strategy to combat drug trafficking, mining, and illegal logging.

Issue Jun 12-17 2025: Following an attack on June 7 against Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, a presidential pre-candidate, authorities are gathering information about the event. The juvenile attacker is in custody, and authorities are working to uncover the criminal network that ordered the attack.

Issue Jun 12-17 2025: São Paulo is showing signs of repeating the violent trajectory of Rio de Janeiro in the 1990s, when death squads within the police evolved into formal militias.

Issue Jun 01-11 2025: For over thirty-five years, Colonel Luis Fernando Urrego, who has been accused of the torture and murders of three Arhuaco mamos, remained unquestioned. Arhuaco Mamos are spiritual leaders of the Arhuaco people, an Indigenous group from Colombia.

Issue Jun 01-11 2025: On June 10, a series of explosive attacks left 2 dead and 36 injured in Colombia. The attacks took place in southwest Colombia before the President’s scheduled visit to the city of Cali where he was to announce the signing of a decree to call for a public referendum on labor

Issue Jun 01-11 2025: In the Amazonian province of Orellana, adolescents are being recruited in large numbers by criminal gangs.

Issue Jun 01-11 2025: The term “narcomilícia,” now widely used in media and political discourse, falsely suggests a new type of criminal group resulting from a merger between drug traffickers and militias.

Researched and Written by Peyton Kelly Issue Apr 02-May 31 2025: Cartels have long been active in Mexico, and recent news indicates that the activity of these criminal organizations has not decreased. Reporting by multiple outlets has demonstrated the persistence of these criminal organizations as well as government responses to the recent rise in their

Issue Apr 02-May 31 2025: Francisco Herrera Franco, a former Michoacán regional prosecutor who served during the administration of ex-governor Silvano Aureoles, is set to compete in that state’s upcoming judicial elections, despite his alleged ties to organized crime and purported involvement in the murder of two journalists.