Last year in Acapulco, a city of only 800,000 inhabitants, 953 people were assassinated – more than in Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Portugal, and Holland combined.

The murder of indigenous leader and human rights defender Margarito Díaz González is the 10th homicide of human rights defenders in Mexico this year. Six of those were indigenous people.

In 2016, a peace agreement was signed between the Colombian government and the leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). While this agreement officially ended the civil war in Colombia, violence has since continued.

A recent rise in the price of cocaine in the United States means good business for drug traffickers in Honduras.

As the Nicaraguan political crisis develops, President Daniel Ortega faces increasing pressure for his role in the deaths, torture, and other repressive and violent actions against the protesters.

President-Elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that the armed forces will continue to participate in public security work.

Rodrigo Londoño, the head of the FARC, recently embarked on a tour of four of his rebel party’s southern training zones in order to choose “new leaders.”

In Nicaragua, protesters of the government of Daniel Ortega have continued to remain active months after demonstrations began.

The Chapultec Peace Accords of 1992 may have brought an end to civil war, but forced disappearances still plague El Salvador.

In San Andrés de Sotavento, a municipality one and a half hours away from Córdoba, the indigenous zenú are struggling to afford basic needs due to one man’s greed and abuse of power.