Guillermo Fernández-Maldonado, the representative of Mexico’s United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (ONU) pushed the authorities for the prosecution and administration of justice to explain the murder of Francisco Javier Barajas Piña, an official for the Search Commission of Guanajuato.

Never before in Brazil—even during the most recent dictatorship from 1964-1985—have this many military soldiers occupied government positions.

Accounts of the Colombian armed conflict by those in positions of authority in the state and opposing groups leave out the perspectives of victims.

Misconceptions surround the election of new seats to Colombia’s government, which will take place in 2022 and will seek to aid those most affected by the violence of the internal conflict.

The small town of Pantelhó is an example of what is happening throughout the entire Chiapas indigenous region, where organized crime groups and political power have merged for years and citizens are organizing to protect themselves.

In Honduras, the pervasive power of gangs has been exposed yet again.

Some sectors of society are concerned about the increasingly frequent military presence in Mexico and are pointing out that multiple spheres of society are being militarized.

During the first two months of the action plan conceived in the Comprehensive Strategy for Citizen Security “My Safe Country,” implemented in the Cristo Rey sector since June, at least 300 illegal firearms have already been handed over voluntarily, while 1,451 have come through other national and decentralized agencies.

Violence by armed groups has led the Colombian government to aim to take out the leaders of such groups in the country, though the efficacy of this strategy has been questionable.

The release of protesters, taken prisoner during the October 2019 Chilean political crisis, would restore faith in the political establishment and pave the way for a successful Constitutional Convention – failure to free these prisoners could very well spark a new wave of social unrest, further imperiling the legitimacy of the current political order.