Drug-trafficking cartels and armed indigenous groups clashed in Cauca, fighting for autonomy and long-term safety.

Reports of homicide may be on the decline in Guatemala compared to 2018, but some note a worrying and aggressive upward spike in incidents of extortion.

Despite rumors of division within the Sinaloa Cartel and its competition with other cartels, the forced release of “El Chapo’s” son, Ovidio Guzmán, is evidence that the Sinaloa Cartel is solid in its footing, though Guzmán’s liberation might have come at the cost of public opinion of the cartel.

In the three largest department capitals of Bolivia – La Paz, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz –  thousands took to the streets to protest the presidential elections of October 20th.

Culiacán has been occupied by drug traffickers since the afternoon of October 17th, 2019.

The leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba, José Daniel Ferrer, has been detained for three weeks and his location is currently unknown.

In Guatemala, an international anti-corruption and impunity commission was formed with the United Nations called the International Commission against Impunity (CICIG).

On October 1, 2019, the Electoral Observation Committee published results on their evaluations for elections of this year.

Former Human Rights prosecutor, David Morales, stated that it is necessary for El Salvador’s government to pay more attention to the Registered Victims of Armed Conflict, which has been ignored for the past four months.

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro voted against Project PL 2538/2019 which would obligate medical professionals to inform the police when they had a woman in their care whom they suspected had suffered domestic violence or sexual abuse.