Despite calls for the release of Nicaragua’s political prisoners, over 200 more have been added to the list only in the past two months alone.

In the state of Chiapas, Mexico, militant resistance leader Estelina López Gómez was shot twice and killed by an armed assailant.

The journalists of the Efe Agency were released in Caracas after being detained one day by the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin) and described their ordeal as “very hard.”

Nicaraguan journalist Miguel Mora and Spanish member of the European Parliament (MEP) Ramón Jáuregui Atondo had an “emotional” talk for half an hour in a prison cell in El Chipote.

The Colombian government has halted negotiations with the ELN following their January 17 bombing of a police academy.

In the early morning of January 21st, just days after President Nicolás Maduro assumed his second term, a uniformed man and other officials entrenched themselves in the Cotiza barracks in Caracas. As videos of the events circulated on social media, the men were detained just hours later.

For the first time, the Nicaraguan army has vowed to take action against the regime’s paramilitary operations.

Despite pleas for help to state government officials from indigenous groups denouncing municipal corruption in Chiapas, the Carpio Mayorga family governing the municipality of Amatán demonstrated with violence that they will not be loosening their grip on power.

Against the recently elected Brazilian government, several organizations are working to impede the increase of firearms ownership in Brazil.

Within the first month of 2019, six social leaders were murdered in Colombia.