Among 180 countries, Reporters Without Borders places Mexico as one of the deadliest countries to practice journalism for the third consecutive year.

Marcelo Pecci, right hand man to the prosecutor general of Paraguay, was assassinated by hired killers while on honeymoon in Colombia on May 10.

Robberies, arrests, murders, and the constant siege of opponents are attributed to a network of armed citizens, primarily made up of paramilitaries, that works in parallel to the Nicaraguan National Police.

The Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia paramilitary group enforced an armed strike from May 5 to May 8 in AGC-held territory in response to the extradition of one of their top leaders.

Daniel Johnson, executive director of Fundación Paz Ciudadana, pointed out the flaws in the recent increase in police personnel and offers suggestions to increase efficiency without the need for more officers.

According to the report “Galería del horror: Atrocidades y eventos de alto impacto registrados en medios” by the NGO Causa en Común, during the first four months of 2022, Michoacán was the Mexican state with the largest number of massacres in the country.

The non-governmental organization FundaRedes released its April 2022 report, sharing the harsh truth about what is happening at the border of Venezuelan western states.

Armed men assaulted police officers, wounding one, in the police station of Hatillo de Loba, a town in northern Colombia.

The Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (Inegi) recently revealed that, according to the results of the Encuesta Nacional de Seguridad Pública Urbana (ENSU), 66.2% of Mexicans feel that living in their city is unsafe.

About 30 relatives of victims of human rights violations marched on Friday, April 22nd at the gates of the Prosecutor’s Office in the state of Lara to bring awareness to those killed throughout the 2017 protests across Venezuela.