Issue Oct 05-11 2022: A new study carried out by the Brazilian human rights organizations Terra de Direitos and Justiça Global has found that since Brazil’s last presidential election in 2018, there has been an increase of more than 400% in political violence, reporting a total of 523 instances in the two-year period between September

Issue Oct 05-11 2022: Twenty-three political prisoners in Nicaragua have started hunger strikes to protest the prison conditions of isolation and torture imposed on them by the regime of President Daniel Ortega.

Issue Sep 28-Oct 04 2022: The government of Honduras has been sanctioned for the extrajudicial execution of Herminio Deras García, leader of the country’s communist party in 1983.

Issue Sep 28-Oct 04 2022: The Colombian government and the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) signed a document in which they found common ground regarding three issues.

Issue Sep 28-Oct 04 2022: Ecuador is seeing high levels of fatal violence in its prison system.

Issue Sep 21-27 2022: After President of Colombia Gustavo Petro announced plans to re-distribute land to the country’s “poor, displaced, or dispossessed” people of the rural areas, powerful landowners and agricultural investors have been placed on what can be described as “war footing.”

Issue Sep 21-27 2022: Group searching for missing persons discovers the brutal truth of cartel violence on a ranch in Veracruz, Mexico.

Issue Sep 21-27 2022: The supposed “co-authors” Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel and Brenda Uliarte refrained from appealing their indictments for attempted homicide, with Nicolás Carrizo, the alleged leader of the “candy floss gang,” and Agustina Díaz set to testify.

Ecuadorian judges, prosecutors, and ex-prosecutors have become the victims of assassination attempts and threats that, since the start of 2022, have already claimed the lives of three district attorneys and one judge.

As the number of murdered Indigenous Brazilians “soars,” around 120 leaders of nine Indigenous communities marched on the Ministry of Justice in Brasília, demanding justice for the victims of the attacks and that the right to live on their ancestral lands be restored.