Issue Sep 27-Oct 03 2023: Numerous testimonies from former inmates imprisoned in El Salvador’s Mariona prison during the country’s state of exception have accused chief custodian William Ernesto Magaña Rodíguez, aka “Montaña,” of perpetrating and ordering the torture of prisoners.

Issue Sep 27-Oct 03 2023: Sergio Rivera Hernández, an Indigenous Nahua activist from the Sierra Negra region in Puebla, Mexico, defended his community’s land, culture, and the vital rivers that sustain them, all in the face of immense adversity and danger and with unwavering dedication.

Issue Sep 27-Oct 03 2023: The “Hugs, not Gunshots” policy was introduced as an alternative to the previous administrations’ approaches, which saw a significant rise in criminal activity.

Issue Sep 20-26 2023: U.S. Congressman Jim McGovern is pushing for the declassification of CIA and other agency documents related to the 1989 Jesuit massacre in El Salvador as its 34th anniversary approaches.

Issue Sep 20-26 2023: Jaime Ernesto Gómez Muñoz, the former bodyguard of political leader Carlos Pizarro Leóngomez, was convicted in the first degree for the murder of Pizarro Leóngomez on April 26, 1990, during a flight from Bogotá to Barranquilla.

Issue Sep 20-26 2023: In the heart of Colombia’s Cauca region, a tapestry of issues continues to unfold: a struggle for peace amidst persistent cycles of violence, the promise of a better future clashing with entrenched inequality, historical and contemporary complexities of a land with multiple communities and identities, the consequences of failed peace agreements,

Issue Sep 13-19 2023: Reporters are being threatened in Mexico, where an attack against the press occurs every sixteen hours.

Issue Sep 13-19 2023: A recent Global Witness report reveals a dire situation in Latin America from 2012 to 2022. During this decade, a shocking 1,335 environmental and land defenders were killed, constituting a staggering 70% of global defender deaths.

Issue Sep 13-19 2023: Brazil’s legal apparatus is clamping down on the January 8th insurrectionists, the rioters who stormed Brasilia in an attempt to overthrow Brazilian democracy, and the coup plotters themselves.

Issue Sep 06-12 2023: Diego Felipe Becerra was murdered on August 19, 2011, on 116th Street and Boyacá Avenue in Bogotá, Colombia.