Former Colombian guerrilla leaders confessed to war crimes and crimes against humanity, while investigations continue into the extrajudicial killings of civilians by Colombia’s armed forces.

The Nicaraguan government has been accused of committing crimes against humanity as a result of the hundreds of extrajudicial executions that took place between 2018 and 2020.

On Friday, February 12, a former agent of the Intelligence Battalion 601 and a retired sergeant of the Argentine Federal Police (FPA) were put on trial before the Federal Oral Court (TOF) for the crimes committed in relation to the clandestine center, Club Atlético.

Miguel Vásquez, a visiting minister for human rights violations at the Court of Appeals in Santiago, Chile, will prosecute Jorge Luis Chován, a former soldier who served under Chile’s military dictatorship, for the murder of José Tohá González and the subsequent cover-up.

On January 23, 2021, nineteen people were found burned in Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Although the massacres of the past three years look different than the violence Colombia experienced at the beginning of the decade, deaths have increased substantially and organized crime poses a major threat to peace-building in the country.

Blanca Agüero, the mayor candidate for Lambaré, Paraguay, and former prosecutor and candidate for Concordia Colorada, denounced political violence reported through fake news.

Declassified documents have revealed that Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet believed that he was given a divine mandate from God to save Chile from communist forces.

The Ombudsman’s Office issued an early warning about the current risk of violence in the Amazon, specifically in the region known as the Putumayo Axis.

Longstanding conflict in the rural area of Cúcuta has led to fear and displacement in surrounding communities.