Young members of Chile’s largest party seek to update doctrine to acknowledge a “human rights deficit” dating back to the atrocities of the dictatorship. 

Sandinistas were ambushed on the 35th anniversary of the Revolution, while the opposition alleges police and military use of disappearances against their members. 

Jared Genser, a lawyer defending opposition leader Leopoldo López, submitted a brief to Juan Méndez, the UN special rapporteur on torture, about the conditions under which López has been held. 

Costa Rican exports are being high-jacked to camouflage drug shipments. 

Chile upheld the convictions of former agents who disappeared two youths who belonged to the Communist Party, while witnesses in Guatemala told of how their family members disappeared. 

The Colombian government and FARC guerrilla have started a new round of talks focusing on the victims, though President Santos wants the military to keep up the pressure. 

The Dutch peace organization PAX must answer for “defamation, slander, and possibly criminal acts” said the American coal company Drummond, denying that it financed paramilitary groups in the northern department of César.  The Dutch remain unmoved. 

An autodefensa leader is arrested, a “spiraling violence” of shootings and kidnappings continues inVeracruz, and in the heart of the “Golden Triangle” a jailed narco still rules. 

There was good hunting for injudicious narcos in Brazil, where plenty of guns were on hand for the World Cup. 

“It’s always better to talk than shoot,” said Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Barcelona when asked about dialogue between President Santos and the FARC.