Almost 40 years after the El Mozote massacre, the El Salvadoran courts are finally able to investigate governmental documents surrounding the atrocity.

As USP professor Conrado Hübner Mendes puts it well, if the Supreme Court of Brazil had taken democracy seriously, we would have military men arrested for crimes against humanity, and the serpent’s egg would not have burst into bolsonarism.

Between May and June of 2020, in the midst of widespread infections and deaths from COVID-19 in Peru, the National Police reported 65 cases involving seizures of firearms.

Human disappearances and discoveries of clandestine graves in Mexico have continued despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

The start of the “trial regarding the massacre of Jesuit priests,” as it is officially called, brings the hope of receiving justice for them and the countless child soldiers and civilians who paid the price for peace.

Over the last ten years, two manufacturers of arms and ammunition have received fines of 12.5 thousand reais for having deadly flaws in their production.

The Ministerio Público of Guatemala is investigating the murder of Domingo Choc, an herbalist, spiritual guide, and Mayan healer.

In the Acapatzingo housing community in Mexico City, which houses 596 families, an armed group of people who identified themselves as Colombian have been harassing the people living there.

Police in Jalisco, Mexico “illegally and arbitrarily detained” multiple protesters headed to the district attorney’s office to protest the murder of Giovanni López.

In these times of emergency, extraordinary cases relating to the management of arms are reported internationally – from “episodes of collective hysteria” in the U.S. to organized crime in Mexico, El Salvador, Colombia, and Peru despite restrictions.