Issue Sep 04-10 2024: César Augusto Pérez García, former rector of the Universidad Cooperativa of Colombia and former congressman of the Liberal party and representative to the Chamber of Deputies for Antioquia from 1974-1994, was sentenced to 279 months of imprisonment on September 2 for perpetrating the aggravated homicide of Elkin de Jesús Martínez Álvarez

Issue Aug 28-Sep 03 2024: Farmers have abandoned Mexico’s Sembrando Vida program after facing insurmountable hardship at the hands of crime and climate disasters.

Issue Aug 28-Sep 03 2024: Nila Heredia and Maria Victoria Fernández, both victims of human rights violations that occurred as a result of the Condor Operation fifty years ago, reiterated the importance of standing up to repression and forming civil unions.

Issue Aug 28-Sep 03 2024: In some neighborhoods with greater socio-economic vulnerability, drug trafficking wields more influence than the government.

Issue Aug 21-27 2024: Mexico’s community police have become the target of increasingly frequent attacks by drug cartels, authorities said on August 26.

Issue Aug 21-27 2024: Responding to a decision by the Dulce Nombre de María Court of First Instance in Chalatenango, El Salvador, to bring to trial three high-ranking military officials accused of plotting the murders of four Dutch journalists in 1982, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) “welcomed the

Issue Aug 21-27 2024: The National Liberation Army (ELN) is recognized as an organized armed group under international humanitarian law, allowing it to engage in peace negotiations with the Colombian government.

Issue Aug 14-20 2024: On May 16, 2023, the family of Luis Armando Rodríguez, 52, imprisoned in the Quezaltepeque prison by the Salvadoran government, received a document in which a judge ordered his immediate release.

Issue Aug 14-20 2024: Questions are mounting over a $619 million contract awarded by the Ministry of Justice to Unholster for developing a missing persons search platform, following a previous $98 million contract with the same company.

Issue Aug 14-20 2024: For the last year, sicarios from La Familia Michoacana have threatened residents of La Palma, a town in the Sierra de Petatlán in the Mexican state of Guerrero, warning them that they would regret not submitting to gang imposed fees and recruitment drives.