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. 

Though Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos contends that the FARC is weaker militarily than ever, he and the nation received a shock when the FARC captured an army general.  The incident has led to calls for a cease fire during peace negotiations, something the president has refused to allow.

Most recent cases of torture in Argentina were reported in police stations and penitentiaries located in Buenos Aires province, a report says. 

Fernando Raymondi Uribe was murdered by what seemed very much like a hit squad, and Peru’s journalistic community does not buy the government’s contention that it was a robbery gone bad.  A press organization called for further investigation while others marched.