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.

According to the Venezuelan government, 1.6 million citizens are prepared to take up arms to protect the regime.

Months after pulling back from public view, Iván Márquez, former Guerrilla leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), has reappeared in a video and is criticizing the aftermath of the Colombian peace process.

Despite the constant attention from national and international organizations, six community leaders throughout Colombia have been murdered within the first week of 2019.

Since October of 2017, Marco Tulio Lima Molina, El Salvador’s general director of penal centers, has been working hard to reduce overpopulation and rebuild infrastructure in El Salvador’s flawed prison system.

Illegal drug trafficking between Colombia and Mexico accounts for 5% of Mexico’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

–Researched and written by Emily Smith— Two years after the murder of Honduran environmental activist Berta Cáceres, those involved in her murder have finally been convicted. Cáceres was shot and killed in her home on March 2, 2016, in the town of Lenca, Honduras, due to her involvement in the fight against the building of

–Researched and written by Aaron Freeman— The murder of Camilo Catrillanca in November by members of the GOPE or “Jungle Command” special forces of the Chilean uniformed police have shaken the Chilean Executive to the core, but President Piñera has taken every step to protect his “political strongman.”