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.

The Chilean Supreme Court convicted six ex-agents of the secret police of Augusto Pinochet for the imprisonment and kidnapping of a young member of the opposition in 1974.  The Working Group Against Forced Disappearance of Guatemala pushed for a bill to help determine the whereabouts of the victims of disappearance and provide compensation for those

Margarita Murillo was shot and killed in the village of El Planón, located within the municipality of Villanueva in northern Honduras.  She had been receiving death threats. 

Seizures by Nicaraguan National Police of nearly 20,000 illegal firearms during a recent five year span have been a key factor in reducing the homicide rate in the country, authorities said. 

A peace deal is unlikely by the end of year, according to the FARC’s top commander; President Santos thinks the war on drugs has failed, and that former President Uribe doesn’t want peace. 

In Colombia a murdered journalist’s body guards had been pulled, and another was killed in Honduras, while mayors were killed in Peru. 

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos opened a new session of Congress calling on lawmakers to back government efforts to strike a peace deal; he also signed a decree granting relief to millions of internally displaced persons; former President Álvaro Uribe defended impunity for former paramilitary members, while victims of paramilitary violence were angered by the