Antonia Hernández López knelt in front of the mayor of Sabanilla, Chiapas, and begged him to tell her where to report the disappearance of her son, Genaro Pérez Hernández, who stopped communicating in 2012 when he migrated to the United States.

In an effort to achieve total peace, President-elect Gustavo Petro includes negotiating with criminal organizations associated with drug trafficking and successors of paramilitarism.

After decades of violence in Mexico, the government has done little to break the cycle. Instead, various governments have employed strategies of forgetting, justification, and minimization.

El Salvador’s Régimen de Excepción, the state of emergency that allows the suspension of several constitutional rights at the request of President Nayib Bukele in an effort to combat gang violence, has resulted in hundreds of dubious arrests.

–Researched and Written by Alyson Reynolds— After more than four years of work, Colombia’s Comisión de la Verdad, la Convivencia y la No Repetición (Commission for Truth, Coexistence, and Non-Repetition, or CEV) released the truth commission’s final report, There Is a Future if There Is Truth. The report, which included historical clarification regarding Colombia’s internal

–Researched and Written by Zoe Allen— Since mid-May 2022, the Chilean region of La Araucania and provinces Arauco and Biobío, located in the country’s macro-zone south, have existed under a Constitutional State of Emergency, a status which must be renewed every 15 days. In the wake of continued violence within the region, a proposal to

Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro has warned the world that he does not trust the polls and insists that the electronic voting machines that elected him are unreliable. Few are taking him seriously.

In Honduras, former army intelligence officer Roberto David Castillo was sentenced to over 22 years in prison for his involvement in the 2016 assassination of Indigenous leader and environmental justice activist Berta Cáceres.

On June 27th and 28th, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights will judge the Brazilian State for its negligent treatment in prosecuting those involved in the murder of rural worker Antônio Tavares, and the injury of 185 other members of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) by Military Police in May of 2000.

La Comisión de la Verdad (The Truth Commission) in Guerrero, Mexico, exposed new evidence about violations of human rights committed by the Mexican army.