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. 

Colombia rebels and the government published the accords agreed to at talks, while President Santos can imagine Colombia without coca and without conflict. 

Thirty years ago, the National Commission on the Forced Disappearances of Persons (Conadep) handed the seminal “Never Again” report to then-president Raúl Alfonsín. 

The “Libro Amarillo” (“Yellow Book”) is a document that is believed to have been prepared by the Salvadoran military in the 1970s and 1980s, and contains nearly 2,000 names.  Historical evidence shows that four in ten of the people on that list were tortured, disappeared or killed.  Researchers believe it is genuine. 

Judge probes Guido Carlotto’s adopters, human rights groups demand justice for the disappearance of  Jorge Julio López on its eighth anniversary, and an appellate court upholds the arrest of five “Triple A” members. 

The anniversary of the 1973 military coup underlines that Chile is still a divided country, while a congressman is arrested for his role in the process, and the nation moves to repeal its amnesty law.  

The president of Colombia’s Congress issued a formal apology over lawmakers’ ties to a paramilitary group, victims of Colombia’s armed conflict urge bilateral ceasefire, and FARC says it is satisfied with the dynamics of the peace process. 

Migrant children are a product of drug cartels says the U.S.; “Self-Defense” groups say guns and drugs were planted while drug gangs tortured and threatened their families; meanwhile the legislature of the state of Sinaloa restricts media activity.