Issue Oct 25-31 2023: Members of the Mexican military and the State Police of Sonora (PESP) fell into an ambush by organized crime members while conducting operations in the Altar Desert area in the northern part of the state.

Issue Oct 18-24 2023: The Colombian government’s “total peace” policy continues its pursuit of negotiations with various armed groups, including the EMC (Estado Mayor Central).

Issue Oct 18-24 2023: On October 13, the Fourth District Criminal Court of Monterrey, Nuevo León, announced the 90-year prison sentences issued to five military personnel for the murders of Jorge and Javier, students from the Tecnológico de Monterrey campus, in 2010.

Issue Oct 18-24 2023: On October 24th, the state of Guerrero, Mexico, became the most violent region of the country by registering 22 murders within the previous 24 hours.

Issue Oct 11-17 2023: Amnesty International (AI) has expressed concerns over the lack of reforms within the Carabineros, Chile’s national police force, four years after the country experienced a significant social outbreak.

Issue Oct 11-17 2023: Colombia’s Fuerzas Militares will launch a public information campaign designed to warn irregular migrants of the dangers involved in crossing through the Darién Gap.

Issue Oct 11-17 2023: Despite significant efforts, resources, and allocating millions, Mexico’s organized crime networks, especially the notorious drug cartels, consistently evade comprehensive understanding.

Issue Oct 04-10 2023: Brazil’s Ministério dos Direitos Humanos e da Cidadania published in totality the full judgement handed down on March 2018 by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights holding the Brazilian State responsible for the arbitrary detention, torture, and murder of journalist Vladimir Herzog in October of 1975.

Issue Oct 04-10 2023: The Nanay River is the basin in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon where illegal gold mining casts a long shadow of violence and environmental devastation that threaten the unique ecosystem.

Issue Oct 04-10 2023: In 2017, Dr. Moisés Abraham Baptista, the physician who conducted Che Guevara’s autopsy after his execution in 1967, challenged the Cuban authorities to validate through DNA testing that the remains found three decades prior in Vallegrande, Bolivia, and subsequently interred in Santa Clara, Cuba, genuinely belong to the Argentine revolutionary.