Issue Jan 24-30 2024: Evidence has been presented of the Salvadoran government conspiring with gang leaders to recapture the illegally released Élmer Canales Rivera, known under the alias Crook.

Issue Jan 24-30 2024: In Nueva Prosperina, a peripheral district in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil, gangs have taken advantage of the area’s isolation to seize properties from terrified residents and turn them into bases of operation for their illegal activities.

Issue Jan 24-30 2024: Although the Mexican government repeatedly stresses its determination to control corruption and reduce violence, organized crime groups in the country continue to pose a formidable challenge.

Issue Jan 17-23 2024: The Brazilian political establishment is petrified by the supposed political power of the military, such that they let criminality and complicity go unanswered.

Issue Jan 17-23 2024: “The erosion of democratic culture” is nothing new or abrupt in Latin America; military presence has been on the rise for a long time.

Issue Jan 17-23 2024: While Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his regime hold more than 100 prisoners of conscience, fear and silence prevail among the public.

Issue Jan 10-16 2024: On January 9, 2023, eighteen people were killed and five hundred were wounded in Juliaca, Peru, due to police repression.

Issue Jan 10-16 2024: The first seven days of 2024 saw a wave of violence sweep Mexico, with armed attacks in Guerrero, Guanajuato, and Sinaloa, continuing the trend of the previous year.

Issue Jan 10-16 2024: To remember the 60th anniversary of the coup which led to Brazil’s 1964-1985 military dictatorship, the Lula administration is pursuing initiatives to remember the details of the atrocities committed during that 21-year period.

Issue Jan 01-09 2024: Following a series of nationwide incidents reported on Tuesday, January 9, including the seizure of an Ecuadorian television station, President Daniel Noboa declared the country in a state of “internal armed conflict.”