Issue Aug 16-22 2023: The Mecanismo Esclarecimiento Histórico delivered incomplete files with information about Rafael Caro Quintero, Enrique Camarena, and multiple high-ranking government officials regarding their involvement in the “Guerra Sucia.”

Issue Aug 09-15 2023: The Petro administration in Colombia began 2022 with the country’s highest rates of negative humanitarian impact in the past ten years.

Issue Aug 09-15 2023: Minister of the Ecuadorian Government Henry Cucalón discussed his government’s stance on the recent slaying of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, and the broader societal implications of his murder.

Issue Aug 09-15 2023: Terror is taking over the town of San José de la Delicia in Sinaloa, what was once a peaceful community, but nowadays is facing violence and cruelty by cartel organizations of the region.

Issue Aug 01-08 2023: Gustavo Zubía, a legislator representing the Colorado party, and Eduardo Lust, an independent legislator, proposed that the army assist the police.

Issue Aug 01-08 2023: Access to files of four cases closed by the Inspectorate of the National Police of Peru, corresponding to the violence that killed 49 civilians and injured 955 as a result of police and military repression during the ongoing protests, has revealed a lack of diligence in the search for evidence to

Issue Aug 01-08 2023: At 10:00 am, Humberto del Valle Zúñiga, husband of Zulma Carvajal Salgo – cousin of Governor Evelyn Salgado Pineda and niece of senator Félix Salgado Macedonio – was shot to death in Guerrero.

–Researched and Written by Simon Bannister– Issue Jul 01-31 2023: A state’s authority is derived from its monopoly on violence, the ability to provide for its populace, and the extent to which this populace considers it legitimate. The Guerrero uprising – in which thousands of residents mobilized against their municipal government, taking police hostage and seizing

Issue Jul 01-31 2023: Ecuador, which is currently considered the second most crime-ridden country in South America, suffered a “bloody week” that began with the shooting of the Manta mayor Agustín Intriago at a sporting event on July 23, 2023.

Issue Jul 01-31 2023: Quilombola residents of the Riacho Santo Antônio-Jitaí community in the Brazilian state of Bahia have faced over a decade of constant police harassment, as businessmen and state politicians attempt to acquire developable land attractive to real estate investment. The visceral and extralegal nature of this long standing dispute was captured on