Twenty-seven years after a historic negotiation between the leftist FMLN and the right-wing Arena party which ended El Salvador’s civil war, the two parties have joined together to promote a new amnesty law.

Under current president Iván Duque Márquez, Colombia is at risk of slipping back into its violent past if it cannot change how it relates to the terms and spirit of the 2016 peace agreement.

Recent legislative actions by the president of Brazil have opened gun-carrying laws and aim to legalize murder under certain circumstances.

During the 1960’s, 70’s, and 80’s, several hundred Uruguayan citizens disappeared due to state sponsored acts of terrorism.

As of May 20, at least 99 political prisoners had been released after the opposition in Nicaragua refused to negotiate until they were all released.

After signing the Havana Peace Accord, FARC-EP is discovering that political reintegration in Colombia is being carried out in an uncommon context, with different protagonists to those of the Civil War.

Sergio Ramírez Mercada, writer and ex vice-president of Nicaragua, outlines his thoughts concerning the Ortega regime and its next viable steps within the country.

The Law has wrestled with how to classify missing victims for a long time.

Although overall numbers of violent crimes have decreased and allowed greater security within Colombia after the signing of the Peace Agreement between the Colombian State and the FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia), there has been a spike in the number of selective assassinations of ex-members and social movement leaders. 

Domestic military interventions in Latin America are well-recorded in history for the civilian deaths which they have caused.