Over the course of several hours on June 12, the inhabitants of San Cristóbal de las Casas, in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, experienced a gun battle for control of the northern market.

Brazilian Police have confirmed the murders of the British reporter Dom Phillips and the indigenous expert Bruno Pereira who disappeared in the surroundings of the Yavarí Valley Reserve.

So far in 2022, Guatemala’s Fiscalía del Delito de Narcoactividad has reported the destruction of 2.5 hectares of coca seedlings.

During the month of May, three prosecutors were assassinated across three different Latin American countries: Marcelo Pecci of Paraguay, Luz Marina Delgado of Ecuador, and Karen Almendares of Honduras.

At least thirty-seven undocumented migrants died from January to May in Mexico, the majority while trying to cross the Rio Grande.

José Miguel Cruz, director of investigations at Florida International University’s Latin American and Caribbean Center and an expert in criminal violence and policing within the region, has studied Central America’s gangs since 1996.

A source interviewed by Amazônia Real affirmed that British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenist Bruno Araújo Pereira are likely victims of an ambush after the two disappeared in the Brazilian Amazon.

In light of a 122% increase in arson attacks following the withdrawal of troops from the region on March 27th, Chilean President Gabriel Boric decreed a state of exception in the south of the country shortly after taking office.

Mexico has suffered from high levels of violence since 2006 when then-president Felipe Calderón assigned the military functions in the war on drugs.

Leaked phone conversations between government representative Carlos Marroquín and leaders of the gang Mara Salvatrucha-13 (MS-13) revealed that the murders of 87 people in a single weekend were the result of a broken deal between President Nayib Bukele and the gangs.