Roberto D’Aubuisson was the founder of the Arena Party in El Salvador, but controversy surrounds him due to his role in the murder of Archbishop of San Salvador, Óscar Arnulfo Romero during the country’s civil war.

A study done by Criteria Research, requested by Chile’s Instituto Igualdad, and linked to the Partido Socialista (PS), offers public opinion information, 30 years after the historical 1988 Plebiscite.

Changes in political processes in the 1980s and 1990s brought about the popular election of mayors and governors in Colombia.

Political tension in Colombia is rising due to the rearmament of dissidents from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

Two years ago, on August 1st, 2016, Néstor Humberto Martínez Neira became Colombia’s Attorney General, and since then he has worked closely on the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) policy, which is part of the government’s peace process with the guerilla group, FARC.

Brazil’s presidential election is less than two weeks away, with ultra-right, ex-Captain Jair Bolsonaro leading the polls.

Last year in Acapulco, a city of only 800,000 inhabitants, 953 people were assassinated – more than in Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Portugal, and Holland combined.

The murder of indigenous leader and human rights defender Margarito Díaz González is the 10th homicide of human rights defenders in Mexico this year. Six of those were indigenous people.

In 2016, a peace agreement was signed between the Colombian government and the leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). While this agreement officially ended the civil war in Colombia, violence has since continued.

A recent rise in the price of cocaine in the United States means good business for drug traffickers in Honduras.