Latin America is the most violent region of the world; 37% of worldwide homicides occur in the Americas, almost all of which happened in Latin America, despite the fact that the region is home to just 8% of the world’s population.

At least four Facebook pages based in Costa Rica have been spreading anti-government messages, promoting a coup d’etat against the president, Carlos Alvarado.

In Colombia, social leaders face a dangerous reality; every few days another leader is assassinated.

El Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional (AHPN), the national police archive in Guatemala, has recently seen a change in oversight from the United Nations Development Program to the Ministry of Culture.

On June 19, Human Rights Watch released a report on the repression of demonstrators and dissenters in Nicaragua who have been protesting Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo’s regime since April 2018.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), presented the results of a detailed investigation into Nicaragua’s political prosecution on June 17th.

Mexico City’s Attorney General, Ernestina Godoy, says that there is a “crisis of violence” in the city which can be seen in the large volume of cases involving first-degree murders.

In 2016, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) announced a final agreement to end the conflict and build a lasting peace. However, as dissidents of FARC join with other rebel forces, the development of peace in Colombia is being jeopardized.

The Defend Life campaign (#DefendamosLaVida) was launched this past Tuesday, June 11th in Bogotá.

Nicaragua’s former political prisoners reveal the unsanitary, rodent-infested conditions of the Orteguista prisons, which do not provide for needs as basic as water or mattresses.