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.

There have been calls for truth commissions, for the return of the students alive, and for action against impunity.  Commentators have dissected the government “crisis” and “emergency,” as well as the official uses of terror.  Mexico has been called before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, witnesses reported that their bodies have been burned, and

The FARC proposed the creation of a national census of victims; President Santos wants to speed up the process for returning land to peasants who have been displaced by violence and drug traffickers; and “Romaña,” the nom de guerre of Henry Castellanos, was sent by the FARC to negotiate in Havana.

Threatening gestures were made during the sentencing of dirty warrior Miguel Etchecolatz. 

The “Shining Path” branch, active in the “VAREM area” of Peru, has returned to older, more violent ways, while drug traffickers are terrorizing parts of Paraguay. 

After the murders and disappearances of students in the town of Iguala, Guerrero, a series of clandestine graves were uncovered; so far none have been shown to hold the bodies of the disappeared students, but the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team that examined the scene is not ready to make a definite determination.  Calls continue to

At least a million girls have been victimized in Colombia’s armed conflict; in Medellín a human rights leader barely survived an assassination attempt. 

Retired Colonel Esteelmer Francisco Reyes Girón and military ex-commissioner Eriberto Valdez Asij will face trial for allegedly subjecting a group of indigenous women to labor and sexual slavery.