On June 19, Human Rights Watch released a report on the repression of demonstrators and dissenters in Nicaragua who have been protesting Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo’s regime since April 2018.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), presented the results of a detailed investigation into Nicaragua’s political prosecution on June 17th.

Mexico City’s Attorney General, Ernestina Godoy, says that there is a “crisis of violence” in the city which can be seen in the large volume of cases involving first-degree murders.

In 2016, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) announced a final agreement to end the conflict and build a lasting peace. However, as dissidents of FARC join with other rebel forces, the development of peace in Colombia is being jeopardized.

The Defend Life campaign (#DefendamosLaVida) was launched this past Tuesday, June 11th in Bogotá.

Nicaragua’s former political prisoners reveal the unsanitary, rodent-infested conditions of the Orteguista prisons, which do not provide for needs as basic as water or mattresses.

It appears that violence in Mexico is growing as more than eighty murders were reported in just one weekend.

After peace talks between the FARC rebels and the Colombian government ended with the Havana agreement in 2012, it seemed as though peace would put an end to conflict in Colombia.

Corruption and drug trafficking within the Bolivian Police force have led President Evo Morales to consider requiring members to make their bank records public, a mandate which could be backdated to the start of their careers.

Colombia is under the spotlight once again as it faces an ongoing series of violence that has yet to end.