Income inequality in Latin America has been underestimated, but it’s known to be high, said French economist Thomas Piketty. 

While the FARC delegation in Havana warned that the “military siege” against FARC units could terminate the unilateral ceasefire that the FARC declared at the end of 2014, a former ELN guerrilla leader declared the peace process in Colombia “irreversible.” 

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, in jail for human rights abuses, was given an additional eight-year prison sentence for siphoning public funds to help finance his re-election in 2000. 

Peasant groups in Chiapas accuse a mayor of using paramilitaries against them, former “rural police” self-defense groups in Michoacán clash with Federal Police, while indigenous groups in Oaxaca form their own self-defense groups, and the parents of the missing “normalistas” are met by security forces with tear gas. 

Luciano Hazán, coordinator of the Truth and Justice Program, highlighted progress in the prosecution of crimes against humanity during the dictatorship, and outlined the major problems facing the leaders of all political parties.  He also thinks they should explain their positions on human rights. 

Carlos Flores Marini was an architect and advocate of Mexican art; Neé Emelia Pérez Castellanos, better known as Ninón Sevilla, was born in Havana, Cuba, and started out to be a missionary nun, but instead followed her love of dancing and acting.

The play “The Captive,” which was performed in Lima, was investigated the by anti-terror police who alleged that it is a work of apology for the “subversive group” Sendero Luminoso, while its author says it is a story and a work of fiction.

Twenty-five years after the murder of the Jesuits in El Salvador the case still has a powerful presence, and will now make it to the small screen through the miniseries Cortar el puente. 

The dirty money scandal plagues the Chilean Right a year after it suffered a crushing defeat, while the Chilean Senate votes to end the Pinochet-era electoral system. 

President Dilma Rousseff begins her second term with a divided country, an economy in crisis, and a massive corruption scandal at Petrobras.