On June 19, 2018, Minister Óscar Aguad of Argentina announced the government’s intention to have the Armed Forces involved in Homeland Security.
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The Daniel Ortega government blockade has caused a new crisis and stagnation in the Diálogo Nacional, mediated by bishops of the Episcopal Conference.
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After brokering a peace deal with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) in 2016, the Colombian government is currently working with the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) to establish a peace agreement in its fifth round of dialogue.
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Two of Mexico’s most well-established and prolific drug cartels, the Cártel de Sinaloa and the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), have expanded their financial and supply networks in the last twenty years to at least fifty countries around the world and are now present in West Africa, Southeast Asia, and Europe, according to official reports
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The Colombian government was convicted by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the case of the murder of Nelson Carvajal in 1998, considering that it failed to guarantee his right to freedom of expression.
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As survivors of the 1968 and 1971 massacres in Mexico remember their fallen comrades, Comité 68 calls on presidential candidates to address the impunity that poisons Mexico’s social and political life.
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A bill that proposes an abbreviated legal procedure for the submission of organized armed groups to the judicial system has been presented a second time in the Colombian House of Representatives.
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It has been more than a year since Donald Trump began tweeting about the “bad men” of the MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha.
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Ten months after an Argentinian man was found dead, his family is still seeking justice and answers. According to Página/12 of Buenos Aires, Santiago Maldonado, a 28-year-old tattoo artist, had joined a road blockade protest on August 1, 2017. Security forces had evicted members of the Pu L community of indigenous Mapuche people from ancestral
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Since April 18, 2018, demonstrators protesting President Daniel Ortega’s pension reforms have come into violent conflict with state police and paramilitary groups.
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