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.

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.