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.

The relationship between drug traffickers, large-scale ranchers, and politicians is not new in the Caribbean region, and it does not begin or end with the “Ñeñe” scandal.

Journalist Beatriz Adrián reported that Josnars Adolfo Baduel had been admitted to the Hospital Vicente Salias – otherwise known as the “Military Hospital” of Fort Tiuna – at least four times for asphyxiation, purportedly due to waterboarding after being detained.

In November of 2019, a document published in the biography “Raul Seixas – Don’t say that the song is lost,” by journalist Jotabê Medeiros, reopened an old wound between Raul and the writer Paulo Coelho; his work raised the hypothesis that Raul could have denounced Paulo during the military dictatorship.

Each year the Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y la Justicia Penal (Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice), a Mexican NGO, releases a ranking of the 50 most violent cities in the world.

Deaths related to drug trafficking in Chile have continued despite the COVID-19 crisis.

Analyzing the relationship between violence and emigration has become increasingly important in the recent years in Latin America.

Newly available documents from the Association of Special Surveillance and Private Security Services, also known as the Convivir Papagayo of the Urabá region of Colombia, reveal the central role of the cattle breeders of the region in paramilitary organization.