The Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos (Cenidh) recently published a report on the worsening human rights situation in the country.

The Open Society Justice Initiative released a report this week stating that there is a crisis of impunity in Mexico. In an interview with CNN, Eric Witte, the project director, presented evidence of various crimes against humanity of which the state is responsible.

Human Rights Watch has accused the Mexican Government of taking advantage of the current funding crisis at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to weaken the organization that questioned its conclusions about the Ayotzinapa disappearances. 

President Salvador Sánchez Cerén and his government are convinced that the only way to address the current violence in El Salvador is with an all-out attack on gangs.

Despite President Juan Manuel Santos’s low popularity, and a climate of distrust about the future, optimism is growing about the outcome of the peace process in Colombia. Many now hope that the deal will improve the country on various fronts.

El Salvador faces a number of challenges before its agricultural sector becomes a viable mode of subsistence for many rural families.

This year’s annual report from the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights has identified a number of severe human rights violations in the Central American nation dating from 2015 to the first months of 2016.

Operation Condor was an illegal and brutal cooperation between military regimes in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia, and Uruguay during the 1970’s and 1980’s.  The intent was to share information, resources, and exchange prisoners to be secretly tortured and even executed. 

Whatever their class, ethnicity, religion or political views, people generally regard peace as a good of the highest order. Very few will publicly disagree that peace should be a central focus in the political debates in Colombia.

Colombia found its military shattered as the 1990s drew to a close, following forty years of civil war. While the guerrilla had the support of the population, the army had to impose it or buy it. And whereas the guerrilla used primarily artisanal weapons, the army had resources, strategies and tactics taken from military school.