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. 

In Colombia Reports of Medellín Charlie de Rivaz reports that, according to the FARC’s chief negotiator, the peace talks between the rebels and the government have yielded only “modest achievements” so far. 

Natalia Gómez Quintero wrote in El Universal of Mexico City that Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón, advisor to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, says that attacks on journalists in Mexico can be considered as crimes against humanity and warns that there must be a focus on these attacks. 

La República of Lima reported that five Judicial District prosecutors have received “serious threats,” and need protection from the Ministry of Interior.