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.

In recent years, at least 50 communities in various Mexican states have formed self-defense groups, outside the remit of the state, to confront delinquency within their communities.

Social leaders in Colombia live in a reality that any moment could be their last, due to the worrying number of social leaders who have been murdered.

In an interview with Max Blumenthal, Daniel Ortega voiced his disagreement with the NICA Act and the resulting sanctions, citing reasons why the Act is unnecessary.

Chile’s political past brings to light the country’s history of espionage toward its own citizens, specifically the Chilean Dirty War from 1973-1990.

The encroachment of colonists on the lands of members of Miskita communities in Nicaragua and the Nicaraguan state’s disinterest has endangered 12 Miskita communities, according to a report by the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL).

The Fuerzas de Acciones Especiales (FAES), the newly created Venezuelan special forces, have been involved in the murder of 238 people in Lara state in their first year of operations.

Brazil’s president, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, plans to use police and military to enforce domestic security.