Going into a new decade, Mexican news media’s role in the problematics surrounding the mystification of Mexico’s growing homicide rate is examined.

In the territories of influence in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, there is a never ending war.

It has been two years since the murder of Rafael Nahuel, and justice has not been served for the Mapuche Indigenous leader.

In northern Cauca, conflicts regarding drugs and violence are ubiquitous and unresolved, but the Colombian State is determined to solve these conflicts with military force.

Armed Forces in Mexico are a response to fight organized crime.

Nicaragua is currently facing an economic crisis under a dictatorship that allocates funds to sustain the police state in the capital and in other cities.

México has turned into one of the most dangerous countries in the world for children, ever more than countries at war like Syria and Iran.

In the current political discourse surrounding climate change and environmental protection, the recent murder of activist Carlos Aldario Arenas raises questions about the safety of environmental activists in the broader context of Latin America.

The last statement from Cristina Bautista, indigenous leader, was “I am convinced that there are more of us who want peace, than those who want war.”

It has been five years since the disappearance of 43 students from the Rural Normal School Raúl Isidro Burgos, a case that has become an icon of violence in Mexico.