Issue Jan 18-24 2023: Gustavo Petro, the President of Colombia, has launched the “total peace” initiative as the main focus of his government in his mission to end armed conflict in Colombia.

Issue Jan 11-17 2023: Although the United States launched the “war on drugs” in Latin America over fifty years ago, drug traffickers are winning.

Issue Jan 11-17 2023: President Gustavo Petro has announced a ceasefire with five armed organizations.

Issue Jan 11-17 2023: Brazil is experiencing a unique opportunity to call things by their name and recognize that the military has fostered the “messianism of useful innocents.”

Issue Jan 01-10 2023: It was a dangerous year for journalists in Latin America, with the region claiming 34% of journalists killed worldwide in 2022.

Issue Jan 01-10 2023: As Peru’s Congress proceeds with a new set of elections, the country has seen 15 days of subsequent protests.

Issue Jan 01-10 2023: At 15 years old, Jorge Quevedo recalled hearing his grandfather Ibrahim arguing with his uncle Pocho, the nickname for Aldo Hugo Quevedo.

Issue Jan 01-10 2023: A coalition of supporters for human rights gathered to defend the expansion of the Special Commission on Political Deaths and Disappearances and its goals that would define more victims of both the 1964 military regime and the cases related to State-related violence after 1988.

Issue Dec 01-31 2022: From 2016 to 2022, FEADLE, an organization created to achieve justice in cases where Mexican journalists have suffered attacks, has closed 352 cases and achieved only 32 sentences.

Issue Dec 01-31 2022: A report compiled jointly by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Cristosal has concluded that serious human rights violations are being committed under the current state of emergency decreed by the government of El Salvador.