The number of murders in Brazil fell for the first time in three years, while the number of people killed by the police hit a record high. 

The bony remains of a fifth body have been found on military property in Uruguay, intensifying suspicions that the remains may belong to a disappeared detainee of the Uruguayan dictatorship of the 1970s and 1980s.

The National Civil Police (PNC), an institution created by the Peace Accords to counter human rights violations by the extinct state security forces, committed extrajudicial executions, altered and covered up scenes of their crimes and threatened witnesses, all of which was revealed in a report submitted to the Attorney General’s Office for the Defense of

When state and federal authorities failed to protect their town, farmers, laborers, and shop keepers took up arms in Mexico to defend themselves and their families from the threats posed by drug traffickers in the area.

In 1970, a revolutionary group called the Shining Path, or Sendero Luminoso, was created.

Five women were taken into custody by the Orteguista Police after displaying banners demanding the release of political prisoners in Managua.

In recent years, at least 50 communities in various Mexican states have formed self-defense groups, outside the remit of the state, to confront delinquency within their communities.

Social leaders in Colombia live in a reality that any moment could be their last, due to the worrying number of social leaders who have been murdered.

In an interview with Max Blumenthal, Daniel Ortega voiced his disagreement with the NICA Act and the resulting sanctions, citing reasons why the Act is unnecessary.

Chile’s political past brings to light the country’s history of espionage toward its own citizens, specifically the Chilean Dirty War from 1973-1990.