The government takes action as disappearances in Mexico increased by 40% since 2014, and numbers continue to rise.

When students from the National University of Engineering (UNI) in Nicaragua decided to protest against President Ortega, police responded with gunfire.

The discovery of a coca field suggests that drug traffickers are looking to improve and shift to newer, closer locations to their main consumer.

The highest authority of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) made an emphatic and controversial plea for legalization.

Horrifically, twelve politicians were assassinated during the first weekend of the state’s eighty-one municipal elections.

Radio journalist Juan Carlos Huerta was killed in Tabasco on May 15, coinciding with the anniversary of fellow journalist, Javier Valdez’s death. Huerta is the fourth journalist killed in Mexico this year.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights released its findings and recommendations following an investigation into the violence that erupted at the protests throughout Nicaragua in April.

This Mother’s Day, many moms had little to celebrate due to the disappearance of their children. On May 10, those mothers united in Mexico City and marched to demand the search for their disappeared sons and daughters.

Another candidate for office has been assassinated leading up to the 2018 election phase. Current Guanajuato governor Miguel Márquez (PAN) has blamed the Federal Government for the insecurity, but Morena/PT/PES coalition member and gubernatorial candidate, Ricardo Sheffield Padilla, tells a different story.

The peace process initiated between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas has not been without complications.