In La Jornada of Mexico City Immanuel Wallerstein conjectured that the civil war in Colombia is coming to an end. 

La Jornada of Mexico City reported that at least 670 journalists were killed in Latin America and the Caribbean in the past 20 years, according to a report on the first day of the International Forum on Impunity, held in La Paz, Bolivia. 

In PáginaSIETE of La Paz Álvaro Valero observed that between 2000 and 2010 the rate of homicides in Latin America grew 11%, while in most regions of the world murder rates declined or stabilized. 

Eric Nepomuceno lamented in Página/12 of Buenos Aires that in the Rio de Janeiro area, which has a population of about seven million inhabitants, just over one million people suffer

Clarín of Buenos Aires reported that the Ministry of Defense released a part of the “black lists” last kept during the dictatorship which included

As the Buenos Aires Herald recognized, the Colombian government and the FARC have reached a “fundamental agreement” on the guerrillas’ future in politics, one of the toughest issues to be addressed in peace talks in Cuba.  

The Buenos Aires Herald noted that political violence escalated in Argentina as campaigning neared an end. 

Fernando Camacho and Georgina Saldierna reported in La Jornada of Mexico City that the U.N Human Rights Council recently recommended that the Mexican state reform its code of military justice,

Sagrario Ortega argued in El Espectador of Bogotá that the “business” of “virtual kidnapping” is spreading from Mexico to other Latin American countries. 

Juan Camilo Maldonado noted in El Espectador of Bogotá that so far this year 98 uniformed police have been dismissed, while public confidence in the Bogotá’s police force is at its lowest point in ten years.