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.

The pandemic has kept students out of school and made them accessible to gangs who drag them into criminal life.

Peruvians seek justice and rehabilitation after Peru’s Agrarian Strike and National March left many protesters and nonparticipants injured and out of work.

The investigation into the El Mozote massacre recently led to a court order for the inspection of documents in the San Salvador Archbishop’s archives.