Issue Dec 01-31 2025: Raquel Caballero, El Salvador’s Human Rights Ombudsman, has taken sides with the country’s ruling party at the most critical moment for civil freedom since the post-war era.

Issue Dec 01-31 2025: Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s Total Peace initiative continues to unroll amid diagnostic errors, strategic improvisations, and the weakening of a state faced with armed militias which have updated themselves to confront modern challenges.

Issue Dec 01-31 2025: The killing of criminal attorney Arturo Pérez Anguiano Scully in Tijuana has reignited concern over growing violence against members of the legal profession in Mexico.

Issue Dec 01-31 2025: Argentina’s court system declared that the government’s anti-protest protocol was null and void. Hours later, the government responded by saying it would appeal the decision.

Issue Nov 19-Dec 07 2025: Miroslav Jenča, the special representative of the UN Secretary-General in Colombia, participated this week in several events commemorating the ninth anniversary of the Final Peace Agreement. In these settings, the diplomat acknowledged progress in the implementation, but also underscored the challenges that remain.

Issue Nov 19-Dec 07 2025: During the last decade, the Colombian government has acknowledged that over 100 migrant children and adolescents have been the victims of recruitment, sexual violence, explosive artifacts, and death threats, coming from armed groups within the country. Dissidents from the FARC have played a pivotal role in the victimization of these

Issue Nov 19-Dec 07 2025: The current wave of violence in Michoacán, Mexico, continues to surge, as criminal organizations silence anyone who dares to raise their voice against their dark machinations.

Issue Nov 12-18 2025: Given former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s increasingly evident links to organized crime, is Claudia Sheinbaum’s defense of his character an act of complicity or loyalty? The current Mexican president, who owes her political career in no small measure to López Obrador, is under scrutiny for her untiring support of

Issue Nov 12-18 2025: Without complete information, it is impossible to determine whether or not a war crime was committed in Guaviare. This episode prompts a review of the applicable legal framework, the State’s obligations, the limits on the use of force, and the dilemmas that arise when minors are used in hostilities.

Issue Nov 12-18 2025: After Operation Containment, the deadliest in the history of the Brazilian police, the government of Rio de Janeiro, in chorus with exponents of the national far-right, has once again spread the discourse of narcoterrorism. According to this narrative, groups like Comando Vermelho (CV) would not only be actors in organized crime, but