The climate of impunity allows the perpetrators of crimes against journalists to continue their attacks without restriction and further violating free circulation of information, said the National Commission of Human Rights (CNDH).

Insecurity imposed by gangs and repressive state plans mean that young people from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras are living a more reclusive life-style that is lacking in diversions and in opportunities, in order to circumvent the unrelenting violence.

In 2014 an estimated 288,900 Salvadorans were displaced by violence.

In Mexico, arrests for drug related crimes increased 1,200 percent between 2006 and 2014, but 73 percent of those incarcerated were for detained possession and consumption.

The presidential race in Argentina will go to a second round in November, as the Peronista forces split between the official Frente para la Victoria and the dissident Unidos por una Nueva Alternativa.  In Colombia, governors and mayors were chosen as the nation considers its post-armed struggle political landscape.  Yet even as a peace deal

Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva urged the ruling Workers’ Party (PT) to back fiscal austerity measures in Congress, endorsing the efforts of Finance Minister Joaquim Levy to plug a gaping deficit. 

Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani spoke out again against abortion, even in case of rape. “No exception allows humans to kill a helpless creature in the womb,” he insisted. 

In an interview, President Michelle Bachelet defended her government’s efforts, as well as its push for constitutional reform. 

It privileges the interests of entrepreneurs and producers to justify a new system of state security.  

A new exhibit entitled “Duelo,” featuring the work of the Mexican artist and activist Francisco Toledo, is on display at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City. A meditative exploration of the violence that has been plaguing his country in recent years, the exhibit includes over a hundred artworks made in cast ceramic and