On June 27, 2017, after seven years, Colombia’s peace process with the FARC concluded with the final surrender of weapons. Despite this, peace has not been reached. 

On August 9, 2018, Alejandro Pupo Echemendía, age 46, was killed by guards at a police station in the city of Placetas (Villa Clara) according to the Miami-based non-governmental organization Archivo Cuba.

While travelling to a national anti-government march, a caravan of activists traveling to Managua were allegedly attacked by Nicaraguan forces.

Since 2003, Salvadoran gangs MS13 and Barrio 18 have been entrenched in the national political discourse.

Emanuele Ottolenghi reflected on the Cartes administration’s efforts to curb the activities of terrorist groups in the tri-border area.

Nineteen years after the assassination of comedian Jaime Garzón, José Miguel Narváez has been convicted to thirty years for his murder.

Issues over land, the drug war, armed conflict, and the absence of the state have prevented peace from reaching the people of Cauca, Colombia.

Mexico’s president-elect, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO, as he is popularly known, will have the daunting task of rebuilding nearly everything when he takes office in a few months, but he also has the opportunity to transition “from barbarism to civilization.”

Gabriel de Jesús Rincón Amado may win his fight for freedom by admitting how the murders of five Soacha youths came about in August 2008.

Fredy Santiago Díaz encourages Congress to enact gun control.