Issue Nov 02-08 2022: After the disappearance of her son Osmar Zúñiga Vázquez on June 14, 2021, María Carmela Vázquez began her search to find him; however, on November 6th, 2022, she was shot and killed outside her home by two individuals on a motorcycle.

Issue Nov 02-08 2022: Patricia Bullrich threatens to punch Felipe Miguel, chief of staff for Horacio Rodríguez. Buenos Aires Police Department, under Sergio Berni’s leadership, kills a worker from behind.

Issue Nov 02-08 2022: Journalist Rafael Moreno was assassinated at the age of 37 with two gunshots in a restaurant in Montelíbano, Córdoba.

Issue Oct 26-Nov 01: Mexico is experiencing an accelerated militarization and is increasingly incorporating elements of a new civil militarism, which is understood as the promotion, reproduction and institutionalization of the military values, attributes, and ways in public life.

Issue Oct 26-Nov 01: On the eve of Brazil’s second round in the presidential election, Carla Zambelli, a white Bolsonaro supporter and federal deputy for São Paulo, was filmed, with gun in hand, pursuing a Black journalist into a bar and repeatedly telling him to “lie down on the floor.”

Issue Oct 26-Nov 01: Due to a contradiction between the Constitution and congressional law, the National Guard is on unsteady legal footing.

Under the administration of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, a decree that passed in May 2019 eased gun laws, allowing easier access to higher power weapons.

The leader of the Paraguayan guerrilla Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo (EPP) Osvaldo Villalba has been killed in a confrontation with military members in Cerro Guasú, an area known for its clashes between the military, guerrillas, and drug trafficking groups.

Due to violence and poverty, more than 250,000 Hondurans have been forced to leave their homes.

Cases of religious violence are on the rise in Brazil, particularly religions of African origin such as Umbanda and candomblé.