In the early hours of Tuesday, May 24, Brazilian Police began an “emergency operation” to arrest drug traffickers hiding in Complexo da Penha, Rio de Janeiro.

Ten years after the creation of the Comissão Nacional da Verdade no Brasil, its importance in combatting historical revisionism and its reverberation at the state, municipal, and public levels is undeniable, according to social scientist and professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN),

Human rights organization Cristosal has documented and received reports that those deprived of liberty are subjected to torture in several of the country’s prisons.

Despite relatively peaceful proceedings in 2018, the 2022 Colombian elections are shrouded in an atmosphere of violence and uncertainty.

One year after 16 people were killed in the village of San Miguel del Ene in Peru’s Valle de los ríos Apurímac, Ene, and Mantaro (Vraem), no arrests or convictions have been made in the case.

New incursions by armed settlers 348 members of the indigenous group Miskito were forced to flee their land after.

Among 180 countries, Reporters Without Borders places Mexico as one of the deadliest countries to practice journalism for the third consecutive year.

Marcelo Pecci, right hand man to the prosecutor general of Paraguay, was assassinated by hired killers while on honeymoon in Colombia on May 10.

Robberies, arrests, murders, and the constant siege of opponents are attributed to a network of armed citizens, primarily made up of paramilitaries, that works in parallel to the Nicaraguan National Police.

The Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia paramilitary group enforced an armed strike from May 5 to May 8 in AGC-held territory in response to the extradition of one of their top leaders.