The Law has wrestled with how to classify missing victims for a long time.

Although overall numbers of violent crimes have decreased and allowed greater security within Colombia after the signing of the Peace Agreement between the Colombian State and the FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia), there has been a spike in the number of selective assassinations of ex-members and social movement leaders. 

Domestic military interventions in Latin America are well-recorded in history for the civilian deaths which they have caused.

In Uruguay, State and civil organizations have worked to build an open-air museum in memory of the victims of the dictatorship that ruled the country in the 1970s.

Families in Veracruz, Mexico, are coming together to celebrate the lives of the 14 victims of a shooting at a birthday party. Among the 14 victims was a baby.

Indigenous people are still the most marginalized and vulnerable social group in Central America.

The Ortega regime continues to employ excessive police force to repress its citizens.

In Honduras, little government oversight and control has led the country to become, and sustain, its place as a popular global destination for money laundering.

Following riots at the Universidad del Valle, tensions between the autonomy of universities and security, in relation to police intervention on campuses, has been brought to the forefront of debate.

On April 18, 2018, civil protests in Nicaragua erupted into a full-scale uprising against Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega.