Issue May 24-30 2023: The Mexican government neglects the serious human rights abuses occurring in Chiapas.

Issue May 17-23 2023: President Xiomara Castro of Honduras declared a state of emergency on December 6, 2022, in order to combat gang members, specifically Barrio 18 and Mara Salvatrucha, and stated that it “has allowed the identification and capture of members of these criminal structures that profit” from extortion, arms and drug trafficking, vehicle

Issue May 17-23 2023: On May 20, 2023, Montevideo streets held the well-known annual March of Silence.

Issue May 17-23 2023: The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Peace confirmed that the dissident FARC revolutionary group murdered four indigenous minors in Putumayo.

Issue May 10-16 2023: On May 15th youths and survivors commemorated the 43rd anniversary of the Sumpul Massacre, in which more than 600 peasants were murdered by the Salvadoran army as they attempted to flee into neighboring Honduras.

Issue May 10-16 2023: The first six months have passed on this year’s electoral calendar and the Peace and Reconciliation Foundation (PARES) reported that Colombia has repeatedly committed political acts of violence, creating victims out of citizens of the country.

Issue May 10-16 2023: The war on drugs has shifted course, and the Mexican government may face challenges in substantiating its progress in combating drug trafficking.

Issue Apr 26-May 09 2023: Professor Alexander Eduvay Guzmán Molina, an educator at Altavista school, was captured on the first day of El Salvador’s emergency regime.

Issue Apr 26-May 09 2023: The political crisis in Peru that began on December 7, 2022, with the attempted coup led by then-President Pedro Castillo has led to a civil conflict that has violated civil rights.

Issue Apr 19-25 2023: The Armed Forces in Mexico are perceived in two ways, as both humanitarian in “supporting the civil population” and combative “towards crime.”