This year marks the 40th anniversary of the military invasion of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, which saw almost three thousand soldiers and police officers storm the university campus in a violent attack on students and professors.

Faced with the violent deaths of 106 human rights defenders in the past years,—with 21 being in the state of Guerrero—the organization Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos Todos los Derechos para Todas y Todos (Red TDT) will initiate a program that observes rights violations and the crack down on drug traffickers in

Twelve years ago, Jaime Martínez advocated dialogue and truces with gang members. Yet, he has since become one of the main defenders of the actions of El Salvador’s Policía Nacional Civil (PNC), which was recently singled out by the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) for committing extrajudicial executions and human rights violations.

During the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner (1954-89) in Paraguay, the Comisión de Verdad e Justicia de Paraguay (Commission of Truth and Justice of Paraguay) “registered 425 executed or missing persons and almost 20,000 detainees.” 

Hundreds of people gathered for a peace march in Zacatecas, Mexico in response to the escalating violence in the region.

Several members of Sendero Luminoso (SL), the Peruvian communist militant group, are approaching their dates of release after being convicted on terrorism charges and imprisoned decades ago.

María Julia Muñoz, the Minister of Education and Culture in Uruguay, among others, gathered to pay homage at the site of a former jail where many victims of Uruguay’s last dictatorship (1973-1985) were held, tortured and disappeared.

A complex history of breakaway guerrilla groups from political and military factions such as FARC, EPL, and others like them has emerged.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has challenged the Salvadoran State, producing evidence of a repressive policy that has permitted excesses and a long list of denunciations, including 47 extrajudicial executions between 2015 from 2016.

In honor of the International Day of the Victims of Forced Disappearances on August 30, Mexico’s Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos (CNDH) urged the federal government to act to prevent, investigate, and punish forced disappearances.