Issue Sep 21-27 2022: The supposed “co-authors” Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel and Brenda Uliarte refrained from appealing their indictments for attempted homicide, with Nicolás Carrizo, the alleged leader of the “candy floss gang,” and Agustina Díaz set to testify.

Ecuadorian judges, prosecutors, and ex-prosecutors have become the victims of assassination attempts and threats that, since the start of 2022, have already claimed the lives of three district attorneys and one judge.

As the number of murdered Indigenous Brazilians “soars,” around 120 leaders of nine Indigenous communities marched on the Ministry of Justice in Brasília, demanding justice for the victims of the attacks and that the right to live on their ancestral lands be restored.

Agents of the Castro regime arrested Berta Soler, the leader of the Damas de Blanco, or the Ladies in White, in Havana, Cuba, after protesting on Sunday, September 18.

Peru has been developing eradication of illegal coca crops since before the global pandemic. Recent statements from the government are seen as contradictory, leading farmers to threaten strike.

Issue Sep 07-13 2022: Despite numerous interventions and redeployments of the National Guard of Mexico and increasingly harsh prison systems, violence in the country has not decreased.

Issue Sep 07-13 2022: General Ricardo Díaz, who led the famous military operation Jaque, published a video a week before the second, definitive round of presidential elections supporting presidential candidate Gustavo Petro.

Issue Sep 07-13 2022: The majority of El Salvador’s populace supports President Nayib Bukele’s imposition of repeated states of emergency – five since March 2022 – in an iron-fisted attempt at wrestling crime and the rule of gangs in the country under state control.  Tamara Taraciuk Broner reported for El Faro Magazine of San Salvador,

In the attempted assassination of Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the federal judge presiding over the case has stated that she suspects the attacker “did not act alone.”

Repression during Brazil’s military dictatorship “was cruel and cowardly.”