Issue May 27-Jun 02 2026: The Senate in Mexico endorsed a reform that helps filter out individuals with criminal ties who may be running for office.

Issue May 27-Jun 02 2026: Rising violence and social control exerted by armed groups define the electoral landscape. This situation coincides with the implementation of Temporary Location Zones (ZUT) in municipalities where election monitoring bodies have identified alerts and the simultaneous presence of armed actors.

Issue May 20-26 2026: Two relatives of the lawyer in charge of the infamous Ayotzinapa case in Mexico, involving the abduction and forced disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teacher’s College in Guerrero, Mexico, were killed in the town of Zapotitlán Tablas.

Issue May 20-26 2026: In the view of Colombia’s Ideas for Peace Foundation (IFJ), drug trafficking looms as one of the greatest challenges to be confronted by Colombia’s next government.

Issue May 20-26 2026: Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz promulgated Law 1731, a measure that removes existing restrictions on the intervention of the Armed Forces in the country’s internal conflicts.

Issue May 13-19 2026: On May 5, 2026, Colombian journalist Mateo Pérez was assassinated in a rural area of Antioquia while reporting on the violence affecting local communities caught amid disputes between criminal groups competing for territorial control in the city’s north.

Issue May 13-19 2026: Venezuela has long been an especially difficult country for mothers of political prisoners as they have carried the burden of sadness and uncertainty while continuing to hope, as they pay interminable visits to prisons, prosecutors’ offices, courts, and state agencies, that their ordeal will eventually end.

Issue May 13-19 2026: Violence in Guerrero, Mexico, is on the rise, with over a thousand people having been displaced from their homes, the evacuation of entire Indigenous communities, and entire families taking shelter in makeshift huts.

Issue May 06-12 2026: Two global steel companies, ArcelorMittal and Vallourec, are negotiating with federal labor offices to compensate for human rights violations committed during the military dictatorship.

Issue May 06-12 2026: One month ahead of the 2026 World Cup, searching mothers in Mexico continue to look for their disappeared loved ones amid the forensic and human rights crisis identified by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) due to the context of disappearances.