On August 30th, Chile celebrated the International Day of the Disappeared, which has been an official holiday there since 2006.

The Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense has discovered nine new graves which may belong to unidentified victims of “death flights,” a method of corpse disposal favored by Argentina’s military dictatorship.

Thousands of those affected by kidnappings across Mexico await a strong governmental response to identify victims.

Guillermo Fernández-Maldonado, the representative of Mexico’s United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (ONU) pushed the authorities for the prosecution and administration of justice to explain the murder of Francisco Javier Barajas Piña, an official for the Search Commission of Guanajuato.

Never before in Brazil—even during the most recent dictatorship from 1964-1985—have this many military soldiers occupied government positions.

Accounts of the Colombian armed conflict by those in positions of authority in the state and opposing groups leave out the perspectives of victims.

Misconceptions surround the election of new seats to Colombia’s government, which will take place in 2022 and will seek to aid those most affected by the violence of the internal conflict.

The small town of Pantelhó is an example of what is happening throughout the entire Chiapas indigenous region, where organized crime groups and political power have merged for years and citizens are organizing to protect themselves.

In Honduras, the pervasive power of gangs has been exposed yet again.

Some sectors of society are concerned about the increasingly frequent military presence in Mexico and are pointing out that multiple spheres of society are being militarized.