Since July 2022, a rumor has been spreading regarding Lula’s health as he started dieting to lose weight.

On the 50th anniversary of the Trelew Massacre, Argentina reflected on the crimes of the former dictatorship.

Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso declared a state of emergency in Guayaquil after an explosion, attributed to organized crime, killed five people and left 17 injured on August 14.

The former Vice President of Paraguay, Óscar Denis, has now spent over 700 days under the control of the Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo (EPP), a Marxist-Leninist guerilla group operating within the country.

Antonia Hernández López knelt in front of the mayor of Sabanilla, Chiapas, and begged him to tell her where to report the disappearance of her son, Genaro Pérez Hernández, who stopped communicating in 2012 when he migrated to the United States.

In an effort to achieve total peace, President-elect Gustavo Petro includes negotiating with criminal organizations associated with drug trafficking and successors of paramilitarism.

After decades of violence in Mexico, the government has done little to break the cycle. Instead, various governments have employed strategies of forgetting, justification, and minimization.

El Salvador’s Régimen de Excepción, the state of emergency that allows the suspension of several constitutional rights at the request of President Nayib Bukele in an effort to combat gang violence, has resulted in hundreds of dubious arrests.

–Researched and Written by Alyson Reynolds— After more than four years of work, Colombia’s Comisión de la Verdad, la Convivencia y la No Repetición (Commission for Truth, Coexistence, and Non-Repetition, or CEV) released the truth commission’s final report, There Is a Future if There Is Truth. The report, which included historical clarification regarding Colombia’s internal

–Researched and Written by Zoe Allen— Since mid-May 2022, the Chilean region of La Araucania and provinces Arauco and Biobío, located in the country’s macro-zone south, have existed under a Constitutional State of Emergency, a status which must be renewed every 15 days. In the wake of continued violence within the region, a proposal to