Issue Oct 22-28 2025: At least 64 people, including four police officers, are reported to have been killed during a large-scale sting operation carried out by security forces in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.

Issue Oct 22-28 2025: Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo has announced that members of the government have been planning a coup d’état against him.

Issue Oct 22-28 2025: A new survey in Chile indicates that that the ruling party’s presidential candidate, Jeannette Jara, is currently in a dead heat with Republican candidate José Antonio Kast, both of whom are garnering 23% of the vote.

Issue Oct 15-21 2025: Over 70 people were extra-judicially executed on San Juan Hill in the Cuban municipality of Santiago in 1959, hours before the establishment of the “revolutionary tribunal,” and bulldozed into a mass grave.

Issue Oct 15-21 2025: The moment this year’s Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado marked an inflection point in the history of Nicolás Maduro’s repressive government. Since October 10, the date of the announcement, police forces in Venezuela have responded with a new wave of detentions targeting activists and

Issue Oct 15-21 2025: Peruvian hip-hop artist Eduardo Mauricio Ruiz Sanz, known as Trvko, was shot and killed on October 15, 2025, during protests in Lima against the interim government of José Jerí Oré. At just 32 years old and the father of a young child, Sanz has become an inflection point for public concerns

Issue Oct 08-14 2025: El Salvador is electing a new head of the Human Rights Defense Office (PDDH). However, the candidates interviewed are tailored to the regime.

Issue Oct 08-14 2025: A recent jailbreak by 20 high-risk prisoners from the Fraijanes 2 prison in Guatemala marks a tipping point in the fraught history of that country’s prison system.

Issue Oct 08-14 2025: A 68-year-old woman was violently evicted from her home in the Popotla neighborhood, where she had lived for more than 50 years. Despite having a statute of limitations in her favor, armed men broke into her home, threatened to kill her, and stole her belongings.

Issue Oct 01-07 2025: A new book by Jorge Schindler Etchegaray, entitled The Chilean Schindler’s List II, engages directly with Chilean historical memory while also providing a universal tale of resistance against dictatorships more generally.