Massacres have increased in the month of September in Colombia with the main victims being young individuals.

Six out of ten people who were murdered in Mexico in 2019 had obtained a high school diploma while a quarter of the victims were under the age of thirty.

In the Amazon of Peru, activists for human rights and for the environment are especially vulnerable to being murdered.

Historically, capitalism has created criminality because of the need to survive the “death sentence” of peasantry and poverty.

Article 218 of the Colombian Constitution defines the national police as a “permanent armed body of civilian nature… whose primary purpose is to maintain the necessary conditions for the exercise of public rights and freedoms.”

In Honduras, established structures can facilitate high-profile organized crimes.

After the death of Javier Ordóñez, Colombian youth have taken to the streets to protest against police brutality.

The Salón del Nunca Más at the corner of a plaza in Granada, Colombia, is a small monument conceived and managed by local victims of violence, particularly from guerrilla and paramilitary groups in the late 20th century.

Artículo 19 released new data about the amount of aggression that journalists received in 2020 in comparison to previous years.

The issue is visible now; police brutality is a reality in Brazil as records show a 7% increase in cases.