A year after the first decade of the UN strategy on drugs, the International Consortium on Drug Policy (IDPC) released a report in which it says that the strategy turned out to be a total failure.

Twenty-nine journalists were assassinated in the Americas during 2018—one of the highest death tolls in recent times and “an alarming statistic for a region that needs a vigilant press to combat corruption, narco-trafficking, and violence.”

The National Institution of Human Rights in Uruguay (INDDHH) released a statement condemning the comments of the current president of the Military Center, Carlos Silva Valiente, which do not “contribute to the construction of a democratic society, the only State model that guarantees peaceful coexistence and the free exercise of rights.”

Detrimental, political conflicts can often turn violent if their solutions offer little consensus.

At the second Conference on Prosperity and Security in Central America, the Trump Administration pressed the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to control the irregular flows of migration destined for the United States.

Since April of 2018, demonstrators have been assembling in Nicaragua to protest the repressive government of Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo.

The role of dissident groups in Colombia is complicated, as their goals and ideologies are not always clear.

Nine documents from U.S. agencies, recently declassified under the Obama administration, shed new light on the famous 1988 Chilean Plebiscite.

Following a delicate peace process, Colombia’s Comisión de Esclarecimiento de la Verdad (CEV) and Jurisdicción Especial de Paz (JEP) are working to promote transnational justice.

A Peruvian judge acquitted a mayoral candidate of the murder of a prominent journalist.