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.

Protests against Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega have intensified and diversified, expanding into cities in the Northern and Pacific region of the country.

Finding peace is a high priority for Mexico, though there are many ways of approaching the situation.

Ortega described masked paramilitaries seen cooperating closely with his security forces against the protesters as “volunteer police.”

–Researched and written by Rebecca Smith— On July 3, 2018, a Chilean court convicted nine retired members of the military for the murder of beloved folk singer, Víctor Jara, under Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship in the 1970s. In the weeks following the trial, news sources covered Jara’s life, death, and reactions to the verdict.

–-Researched and written by Katie Benisch— Colombia has faced a series of social leaders being not only attacked, but assassinated as well. These leaders held positions in their communities as teachers and politicians and have been distinguished by their care for social issues. Fellow Colombians are trying to make sense of these acts of violence

There were no deaths directly caused by the long-running Colombian conflict in 2017.

Education in Mexico has taken bold steps to prepare students for the reality of the society that they live in.