The Colombian government has halted negotiations with the ELN following their January 17 bombing of a police academy.

In the early morning of January 21st, just days after President Nicolás Maduro assumed his second term, a uniformed man and other officials entrenched themselves in the Cotiza barracks in Caracas. As videos of the events circulated on social media, the men were detained just hours later.

For the first time, the Nicaraguan army has vowed to take action against the regime’s paramilitary operations.

Despite pleas for help to state government officials from indigenous groups denouncing municipal corruption in Chiapas, the Carpio Mayorga family governing the municipality of Amatán demonstrated with violence that they will not be loosening their grip on power.

Against the recently elected Brazilian government, several organizations are working to impede the increase of firearms ownership in Brazil.

Within the first month of 2019, six social leaders were murdered in Colombia.

According to the Venezuelan government, 1.6 million citizens are prepared to take up arms to protect the regime.

Months after pulling back from public view, Iván Márquez, former Guerrilla leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), has reappeared in a video and is criticizing the aftermath of the Colombian peace process.

Despite the constant attention from national and international organizations, six community leaders throughout Colombia have been murdered within the first week of 2019.

Since October of 2017, Marco Tulio Lima Molina, El Salvador’s general director of penal centers, has been working hard to reduce overpopulation and rebuild infrastructure in El Salvador’s flawed prison system.