Luciano Hazán, coordinator of the Truth and Justice Program, highlighted progress in the prosecution of crimes against humanity during the dictatorship, and outlined the major problems facing the leaders of all political parties.  He also thinks they should explain their positions on human rights. 

Mexicans believe that their society has been “kidnapped by violence,” because of the horrific number of disappeared and murdered. 

The president of the Argentine human rights organization CELS spoke at the Organization of American States on the compatibility of both finding the truth about past dirty wars and achieving justice.   

President Juan Manuel Santos says that any peace process with the ELN guerrillas will be conditional on their ceasing the practice of kidnapping. 

Despite celebrations of the peace accord between the Guatemalan government and the Izquierdista Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG), violence and impunity continue to plague the nation. 

President Santos says there must be some level of accountability, while the FARC released the Army general they had captured.  Santos subsequently reinitiated peace talks, and the FARC called for revisions in the terms of the process.

There are striking similarities between Colombia’s and Mexico’s experiences with drugs, politics, and violence. 

While protestors threw Molotov cocktails and Mexico’s president said “We are all from Ayotzinapa,” commentators foreign and domestic weighed in.  It is also clear that the famous 43 are just the tip of Mexico’s iceberg of desparecidos. 

The mayor of San Salvador defended a tribute to Roberto D’Aubuisson on the eve of the 35th anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Óscar Romero. 

The National Truth Commission (CNV) submitted the new list of dead and missing during the Brazilian dictatorship.