For several months Catatumbo has been in a social crisis—plagued by massacres, mass displacements, and confinements—due to the war between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and Popular Liberation Army (EPL).

While soccer games are a famous and favorite pastime in Latin America, in Honduras they double as the setting of constant and recurring violence.

The nine soldiers were accused of manslaughter and of failing to provide assistance to victims, but were released.

Twenty-seven years after a historic negotiation between the leftist FMLN and the right-wing Arena party which ended El Salvador’s civil war, the two parties have joined together to promote a new amnesty law.

Under current president Iván Duque Márquez, Colombia is at risk of slipping back into its violent past if it cannot change how it relates to the terms and spirit of the 2016 peace agreement.

Recent legislative actions by the president of Brazil have opened gun-carrying laws and aim to legalize murder under certain circumstances.

During the 1960’s, 70’s, and 80’s, several hundred Uruguayan citizens disappeared due to state sponsored acts of terrorism.

As of May 20, at least 99 political prisoners had been released after the opposition in Nicaragua refused to negotiate until they were all released.

After signing the Havana Peace Accord, FARC-EP is discovering that political reintegration in Colombia is being carried out in an uncommon context, with different protagonists to those of the Civil War.

Sergio Ramírez Mercada, writer and ex vice-president of Nicaragua, outlines his thoughts concerning the Ortega regime and its next viable steps within the country.