Issue Sep 17-23 2025: Peru’s Department of Amazonas was the setting for the country’s highest increase in cocaine production (45%) between 2023 and 2024, according to data from the National Commission for Development and Life Without Drugs (Devida). Between 2020 and 2024, coca cultivation along the Ecuadorian border almost tripled, climbing from 656 hectares to

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: The leader of the largest opposition coalition in Venezuela, Edmundo González Urrutia, has called on the “democratic governments of the world” to take a “firm position” and demand an “immediate cessation of arbitrary arrests” in his country.

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: Meditating on public security has become a daily ritual in Mexico. Morning talk shows offer details about rising and falling crime statistics, and images of criminals in handcuffs give the impression that the state is ultimately in control. But the reality on the ground is quite different: it is enough to

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: According to La Comisionada Nacional de los Derechos Humanos (CONADEH), the state of emergency “opens the door” for more disappearances to occur. The measure, which covers 226 municipalities, has been extended 23 times.

Issue Sep 03-09 2025: Several collectives representing mothers of the disappeared held a candlelight vigil on September 9 in front of the Government Palace in Culiacán, Mexico, in order to make visible their demand that officials intensify searches for the nearly 2,000 people who have gone missing in the region since an armed conflict began

Issue Sep 03-09 2025: Colombia’s notorious Clan del Golfo, a criminal paramilitary organization operating in hundreds of municipalities throughout the country, has renamed itself the Gaitanista Army of Colombia (EGC), and is growing stronger despite the government’s “total peace” initiative.

Issue Sep 03-09 2025: It’s no secret that Hugo Motta, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, and Davi Alcolumbre, President of the Senate, are plotting behind the scenes to approve a “light amnesty,” a proposal the press treats as a reasonable alternative to the possibility of freeing former President Jair Bolsonaro from prison.

Issue Aug 27-Sep 02 2025: The Nicaraguan government, led by husband and wife co-Presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, is systematically carrying out enforced disappearances since April 2018, according to a report prepared by a group of human rights organizations.

Issue Aug 27-Sep 02 2025: A Datafolha poll found that 46% of Brazilians viewed former President Jair Bolsonaro’s public security policies as better than current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s, while 29% believed the opposite. This sentiment emerged despite a major study, the Atlas da Violência 2025, showing that Brazil recorded 45,747 homicides in

Issue Aug 27-Sep 02 2025: The organization Mothers and Relatives of Detained and Disappeared Uruguayans (Famidesa) has confirmed the identity of Ricardo Altamirano Alza, a Uruguayan citizen who was kidnapped and murdered in 1976 during Argentina’s military dictatorship.