Issue Sep 13-19 2023: A recent Global Witness report reveals a dire situation in Latin America from 2012 to 2022. During this decade, a shocking 1,335 environmental and land defenders were killed, constituting a staggering 70% of global defender deaths.

Issue Sep 13-19 2023: Brazil’s legal apparatus is clamping down on the January 8th insurrectionists, the rioters who stormed Brasilia in an attempt to overthrow Brazilian democracy, and the coup plotters themselves.

Issue Sep 06-12 2023: Diego Felipe Becerra was murdered on August 19, 2011, on 116th Street and Boyacá Avenue in Bogotá, Colombia.

Issue Sep 06-12 2023: Delegate to the Mexican Attorney General (FGR), Fernando García Fernández was killed in Guerrero by armed gunmen, the latest act of violence in a state rocked by organized crime.

Issue Aug 30-Sep 05 2023: Salvadoran authorities arrived in Peru to participate in the 10th Misión Internacional de Ciudades Seguras, at a time when 80% of Peruvian citizens express concerns over insecurity, and right-wing politicians discuss the merits of the so-called Bukele Plan.

Issue Aug 30-Sep 05 2023: In the early 1990s, Jesús Santiago Patiño began his lifelong career as a recycler after finding a dead horse and selling its bones for income.

Issue Aug 30-Sep 05 2023: While experiencing a harrowing humanitarian and human rights crisis, Mexico’s International Day of Victims of Forced Disappearances has shone a spotlight on a grave issue plaguing the nation and wider Latin America.

Issue Aug 23-29 2023: Twenty years have passed since the report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR).

Issue Aug 23-29 2023: In the face of increasing violence targeting local politicians, the Colombian national registrar suggested that October 29th elections could be suspended in gravely affected territories such as Cauca.

Issue Aug 23-29 2023: New episodes of political violence have surged in recent months, where María Corina Machado of Vente Venezuela, Henrique Capriles of Primero Justicia, and Delsa Solórzano of Encuentro Ciudadano have all been targeted.