On October 1, 2019, the Electoral Observation Committee published results on their evaluations for elections of this year.

Former Human Rights prosecutor, David Morales, stated that it is necessary for El Salvador’s government to pay more attention to the Registered Victims of Armed Conflict, which has been ignored for the past four months.

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro voted against Project PL 2538/2019 which would obligate medical professionals to inform the police when they had a woman in their care whom they suspected had suffered domestic violence or sexual abuse.

President Jimmy Morales declared a state of emergency over 22 municipalities near Lake Izabal following the murder of three soldiers and rumors of drug trafficking.

A DNA report on human remains found in Uruguay’s 13th army battalion have been confirmed to be those of Eduardo Bleier, a member of the Communist Party who disappeared in 1975.

Although in exile, Madelaine Caracas is one of the key figures in fighting President Daniel Ortega’s regime. Madelaine believes, however, that only mobilization from “inside” will manage to remove Ortega.

On July 14th of 2017, La Fuerza de Acciones Especiales (FAES) became a unit of the Venezuelan police force, or the Policía Nacional Bolivariana (PNB).

Colombia is facing dangerously precarious situations in the weeks leading up to the elections.

A 29-year-old leader of the Tolupán indigenous group was confirmed dead on September 28, after having been missing since September 23.

Untimely death has become almost an expectation in some favelas of Brazil.