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. 

The Dirección de Lucha contra el Narcotráfico of Honduras, DLCN, will launch an investigation of “around 35 ‘narcoalcaldes’ ” and President Ollanta Humala of Peru asserted that criminal activity related to drugs is the main challenge in Peru and in the region.   

Two proposals for the legalization of self-cultivated marijuana are currently being debated in the House of Representatives, but many officials only want to consider therapeutic uses; journalist Audeliza Solano says she has been getting death threats from the mayor of the municipality of Samaná, Nadín Miguel Bezi Nicasio. 

OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza insisted that now a “regional consensus” exists regarding drug use and trafficking throughout the hemisphere.