Issue Feb 04-10 2026: The latest report from the Salvadoran NGO Socorro Jurídico Humanitario (Humanitarian Legal Aid) indicates that 94,844 Salvadorans have been captured to date under the country’s state of exception, among whom 470 have died in prison, including Blanca Osmilda Castro Quijada, a 60-year-old woman who lived in a gang-free community but who
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Issue Feb 04-10 2026: A new report carried out by the NGO Mexico Evalúa entitled “Violence in Mexico: 2015-2025” indicates that lethal violence in the country has risen by 68.2% over the last ten years.
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Issue Feb 04-10 2026: The government of Santa Fe, Argentina, has suspended at least 20 members of the police forces who took part in protests on February 10 and 11 in the city of Rosario.
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Issue Jan 28-Feb 03 2026: The origins of the coca economy in Colombia date back to the waves of peasant colonization during the second half of the twentieth century, when thousands of poor rural families settled in marginal areas of the country, without deeds of property or access to legal markets.
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Issue Jan 28-Feb 03 2026: Argentina’s institutional framework came under sustained strain in 2025, according to the latest annual report from Human Rights Watch.
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Issue Jan 21-27 2026: Brazil again topped the global ranking for killings of trans and travesti people despite a year-on-year decline in recorded murders, according to a new report.
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Issue Jan 21-27 2026: Mexico closed 2025 with persistently high levels of extreme violence across the country.
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Issue Jan 21-27 2026: The Guatemalan government reports dozens of arrests in two days under a state of emergency. Arévalo avoids naming the “political structures” accused of colluding with Barrio 18 but singled out and accused the gang of conspiring to assassinate him in 2023.
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Issue Jan 14-20 2026: Argemiro Luzardo is a 55-year-old Indigenous inhabitant of Colombia’s Guainía department, where he earns his living by risking his life, diving up to 40 meters in the Inírida River in search of gold.
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Issue Jan 14-20 2026: What is the human rights situation in Mexico at the end of 2025? The most complex challenge over the past two decades has been violations of the right to integrity, the right to life and the prohibition of forced disappearance and torture.
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