In light of the recent resurgence of violent conflicts in Michoacán due to the return of drug lord El Mencho to the state, Michoacán’s recent history serves as a case study to understand the larger dynamics at play between the government and these groups claiming to bring safety to their communities.

A high-ranking officer in Brazil’s ruling political party, PSL, made a controversial financial offer for the assassination of a fugitive murder suspect.

–Written by Aaron Freeman— While one analyst focused on the present challenges for FARC dissidents to achieve an alliance with the ELN, the other detailed the historical tensions between the groups that would hinder cooperation.

Being robbed is one of most common experiences suffered by migrants during their journey to get to the US.

The number of murders in Brazil fell for the first time in three years, while the number of people killed by the police hit a record high. 

The bony remains of a fifth body have been found on military property in Uruguay, intensifying suspicions that the remains may belong to a disappeared detainee of the Uruguayan dictatorship of the 1970s and 1980s.

The National Civil Police (PNC), an institution created by the Peace Accords to counter human rights violations by the extinct state security forces, committed extrajudicial executions, altered and covered up scenes of their crimes and threatened witnesses, all of which was revealed in a report submitted to the Attorney General’s Office for the Defense of

When state and federal authorities failed to protect their town, farmers, laborers, and shop keepers took up arms in Mexico to defend themselves and their families from the threats posed by drug traffickers in the area.

In 1970, a revolutionary group called the Shining Path, or Sendero Luminoso, was created.

Five women were taken into custody by the Orteguista Police after displaying banners demanding the release of political prisoners in Managua.