Issue Aug 16-22 2023: The Minister of Security of Argentina, Aníbal Fernández, announced that there are groups “encouraging” looting around the country.

Issue Aug 16-22 2023: A year since the beginning of Petro’s government, significant advances have taken place in the dialogues and negotiations with the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), playing a fundamental role in Petro’s Total Peace (Paz Total) policy.

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