Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro has warned the world that he does not trust the polls and insists that the electronic voting machines that elected him are unreliable. Few are taking him seriously.

In Honduras, former army intelligence officer Roberto David Castillo was sentenced to over 22 years in prison for his involvement in the 2016 assassination of Indigenous leader and environmental justice activist Berta Cáceres.

On June 27th and 28th, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights will judge the Brazilian State for its negligent treatment in prosecuting those involved in the murder of rural worker Antônio Tavares, and the injury of 185 other members of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) by Military Police in May of 2000.

La Comisión de la Verdad (The Truth Commission) in Guerrero, Mexico, exposed new evidence about violations of human rights committed by the Mexican army.

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.