A recent protest in the Loreto region of Peru against the operations of the oil and gas company PetroTal escalated into a situation of violent repression.

Most newspapers and TV programs do not name factions and militias in order not to validate these groups, but that decision has not always been innocuous and may even be dangerous to citizens.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights expressed concerns over a law in Uruguay that would limit the prosecution of individuals convicted of human rights violations.

In June 2020, the Mexican National Intelligence Center received information about a possible hit on the Secretary of Citizen Security, Omar García Harfuch.

The organization Global Witness has recently published a report that documented the highest number of crimes against environmental activists since they started documenting them in 2012.

Pablo Morrugares, the director of P.M Noticias of Iguala was assassinated early morning on Sunday, August 2.

For decades, indigenous communities in southern Chile have dealt with agricultural companies exploiting the lands that the communities consider ancestral.

–Researched and Written by Stav Salpeter— The case of the sexual abuse of a 12-year-old indigenous girl by Colombian military personnel on June 21, 2020, in Risaralda has sparked a nation-wide conversation. A recent report has shown that 118 military officials have been investigated for involvement in sexual crimes over the past four years, leading

–Researched and Written by Mackenzie Krol— On April 30, 2020, 22-year-old Facundo Astudillo Castro left his home in Pedro Luro in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina heading to Bahía Blanca; however, he never arrived at his destination. Facundo was trying to visit his ex-girlfriend, but on the way, he was stopped by the Buenos

–Researched and Written by Jeffrey López—   While the 2016 Colombian Peace Deal has been both criticized and praised internationally, its shortcomings have been emphasized during the coronavirus epidemic. The peace deal resulted in then-president Juan Manual Santos being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize but four years later, the result is a far cry from