Issue Oct 04-10 2023: Brazil’s Ministério dos Direitos Humanos e da Cidadania published in totality the full judgement handed down on March 2018 by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights holding the Brazilian State responsible for the arbitrary detention, torture, and murder of journalist Vladimir Herzog in October of 1975.

Issue Oct 04-10 2023: The Nanay River is the basin in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon where illegal gold mining casts a long shadow of violence and environmental devastation that threaten the unique ecosystem.

Issue Oct 04-10 2023: In 2017, Dr. Moisés Abraham Baptista, the physician who conducted Che Guevara’s autopsy after his execution in 1967, challenged the Cuban authorities to validate through DNA testing that the remains found three decades prior in Vallegrande, Bolivia, and subsequently interred in Santa Clara, Cuba, genuinely belong to the Argentine revolutionary.

Issue Sep 27-Oct 03 2023: Numerous testimonies from former inmates imprisoned in El Salvador’s Mariona prison during the country’s state of exception have accused chief custodian William Ernesto Magaña Rodíguez, aka “Montaña,” of perpetrating and ordering the torture of prisoners.

Issue Sep 27-Oct 03 2023: Sergio Rivera Hernández, an Indigenous Nahua activist from the Sierra Negra region in Puebla, Mexico, defended his community’s land, culture, and the vital rivers that sustain them, all in the face of immense adversity and danger and with unwavering dedication.

Issue Sep 27-Oct 03 2023: The “Hugs, not Gunshots” policy was introduced as an alternative to the previous administrations’ approaches, which saw a significant rise in criminal activity.

Issue Sep 20-26 2023: U.S. Congressman Jim McGovern is pushing for the declassification of CIA and other agency documents related to the 1989 Jesuit massacre in El Salvador as its 34th anniversary approaches.

Issue Sep 20-26 2023: Jaime Ernesto Gómez Muñoz, the former bodyguard of political leader Carlos Pizarro Leóngomez, was convicted in the first degree for the murder of Pizarro Leóngomez on April 26, 1990, during a flight from Bogotá to Barranquilla.

Issue Sep 20-26 2023: In the heart of Colombia’s Cauca region, a tapestry of issues continues to unfold: a struggle for peace amidst persistent cycles of violence, the promise of a better future clashing with entrenched inequality, historical and contemporary complexities of a land with multiple communities and identities, the consequences of failed peace agreements,

Issue Sep 13-19 2023: Reporters are being threatened in Mexico, where an attack against the press occurs every sixteen hours.