El Salvador’s Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation, or FMLN, was an example for the Colombian peace process.

Central America must openly recognize forced displacement, which has mainly been caused by violence, and respond to the needs of its citizens, said the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

During the third annual meeting of the Conferencia Mundial de Periodistas de Ciencia, reporters from Mexico and Latin America outlined the security challenges that scientific reporters faced in that region.

The Colombian government has begun a crop substitution program to reduce coca cultivation. Coca-growing families will receive payments for voluntarily eradicating coca crops, while forced eradication is occurring other situations. However, violence on the part of armed dissidents and criminal organizations threatens both the short-term and long-term success of the program, as coca growers face

The Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos (National Human Rights Commission; CNDH) has sued the Attorney General’s Office in Mexico over human rights violations involving Mexican federal and state police forces in Nochixtlán, Oaxaca following open fire on citizens and the excessive use of force. 

The United States Government sentenced Francisco Colorado Cessa to twenty years in prison for laundering money for Los Zetas, an organized crime organization.

On October 10, Manuel Hernández Pasión, mayor of Huitzilan de Serdán, Puebla, was shot dead on a road near his municipality.

The genocide trial of Guatemala’s former dictator, Efraín Ríos Montt, has resumed since the decision of the country’s Constitutional Court to separate the trials concerning Ríos Montt and the former military intelligence chief, José Rodríguez.

Mexican journalists Javier Valdez Cárdenas and Miroslava Breach were both assassinated within three months of each other in Mexico.

Although violence in Colombia is declining due to the Ceasefire with the ELN (National Liberation Army), the situation in the regions of Chocó, the North of Santander, Arauca and Nariño may be fragile.