Chief prosecutor of high complexity crimes, with a law degree from the University of Chile, feminist, granddaughter of Chinese immigrants, and an avid fan of Japanese manga and anime are all ways to describe Ximena Chong.

The Magistrate of the Special Justice for the Peace (JEP) announced that the former secretariat of the rebel group FARC admitted responsibility for six homicides to the Court of the Recognition of Truth and Responsibility.

Ex-military and policemen were tried in Tucumán for systematic human rights violations committed during Operation Independence; the trial concluded with a highly criticized ruling of 16 convictions and nine acquittals.

Massacres have increased in the month of September in Colombia with the main victims being young individuals.

Six out of ten people who were murdered in Mexico in 2019 had obtained a high school diploma while a quarter of the victims were under the age of thirty.

In the Amazon of Peru, activists for human rights and for the environment are especially vulnerable to being murdered.

Historically, capitalism has created criminality because of the need to survive the “death sentence” of peasantry and poverty.

Article 218 of the Colombian Constitution defines the national police as a “permanent armed body of civilian nature… whose primary purpose is to maintain the necessary conditions for the exercise of public rights and freedoms.”

In Honduras, established structures can facilitate high-profile organized crimes.

After the death of Javier Ordóñez, Colombian youth have taken to the streets to protest against police brutality.