Issue Sep 03-09 2025: Several collectives representing mothers of the disappeared held a candlelight vigil on September 9 in front of the Government Palace in Culiacán, Mexico, in order to make visible their demand that officials intensify searches for the nearly 2,000 people who have gone missing in the region since an armed conflict began

Issue Sep 03-09 2025: Colombia’s notorious Clan del Golfo, a criminal paramilitary organization operating in hundreds of municipalities throughout the country, has renamed itself the Gaitanista Army of Colombia (EGC), and is growing stronger despite the government’s “total peace” initiative.

Issue Sep 03-09 2025: It’s no secret that Hugo Motta, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, and Davi Alcolumbre, President of the Senate, are plotting behind the scenes to approve a “light amnesty,” a proposal the press treats as a reasonable alternative to the possibility of freeing former President Jair Bolsonaro from prison.

Issue Aug 27-Sep 02 2025: The Nicaraguan government, led by husband and wife co-Presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, is systematically carrying out enforced disappearances since April 2018, according to a report prepared by a group of human rights organizations.

Issue Aug 27-Sep 02 2025: A Datafolha poll found that 46% of Brazilians viewed former President Jair Bolsonaro’s public security policies as better than current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s, while 29% believed the opposite. This sentiment emerged despite a major study, the Atlas da Violência 2025, showing that Brazil recorded 45,747 homicides in

Issue Aug 27-Sep 02 2025: The organization Mothers and Relatives of Detained and Disappeared Uruguayans (Famidesa) has confirmed the identity of Ricardo Altamirano Alza, a Uruguayan citizen who was kidnapped and murdered in 1976 during Argentina’s military dictatorship.

Issue Aug 20-26 2025: President Gustavo Petro of Colombia is known for his “total peace” policy aimed at encouraging negotiations instead of conflict with drug cartels and criminal organizations.

Issue Aug 20-26 2025: On July 7th of last year, Ismael Zambada, known as “El Mayo,” spoke with Proceso Magazine. Zambada recounted the places in which he has sought refuge, spanning 40 years. Two and a half weeks after sharing his praise of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s policy of “hugs, not bullets,” an

Issue Aug 13-19 2025: The August arrest of Hermelinda M.O., alias the “Hyena,” underscores the increasingly visible role that women are playing in the violence affecting Mexico.

Issue Aug 13-19 2025: “In Colombia, there is more territory than nation and more nation than state.” This is what journalist Luis Carlos Galán used to repeat, quoting Rodrigo Escobar Navia. The phrase is an exemplification of the nation’s armed conflict, caused by a decade-long backlash that arose from the 2016 Peace Accord with the