The National Assembly of the Commons will be held this year April 11th-16th. The proximity of this event has increased internal conflict and has caused the media to predict catastrophic outcomes for the FARC Party.

El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras suffer an “epidemic of violence,” principally caused by maras: gangs that sustain themselves off of the poor youths and families in marginalized communities without protections by police nor incentives to maintain legally legitimate lifestyles.

The National Guard stopped Central American migrants who tried to enter Mexico.

The Human Rights Watch organization published a report which called the Guerillas the police force of Colombia, emphasizing the strengthening of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (National Liberation Army, ELN) and other armed groups in the Colombian department of Arauca and the Venezuelan state of Apure.

On January 16, the mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, declared a new protocol regarding social protest interventions in the city.

Monday through Saturday, 8am to 6pm, residents of Nicaragua can expect to see nine police officials associated with the Department of Special Operations posted outside of banks, shopping malls, and other public places.

Children in Mexico are being trained to defend themselves in the face of the drug trafficking and violence that are running rampant in the country.

OjoPúblico visited Ucayali, Peru, to analyze files, reports, and evidence five years after the assassination of Ashéninka leaders Edwin Chota, Jorge Ríos Pérez, Leoncio Quintisima Meléndez, and Francisco Pinedo Ramírez on the border of the Amazon of Peru and Brazil.

The Golfo, Noroeste, Talibanes, Sinaloa, and Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) cartels have disputed this important trafficking territory for years, and have begun to adapt to the lucrative Fentanyl trade in the last two-to-three years.

Brazil has an infamous history of prohibiting movements and peaceful protests from continuing with violent police brutality, especially when the event of the protest is fighting against the government.