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.”

According to the Immigration Directorate of Costa Rica, “more than 30,000 Nicaraguans have crossed the San Juan River” into their country from Nicaragua since January 19 of 2018, when Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega began his campaign of oppression against protesters within his nation.

Luis Sánchez, an editorial columnist for La Prensa, has been arrested.

A court in Guatemala sentenced a former member of the Patrulla Especial Kaibil—an elite military force—to 5,160 years in prison for his role in the Dos Erres Massacre.