In recent years in Guatemala, conflicts and demands of different sectors of society have been exacerbated by the lack of response and consensus with Government. 

President Nicolás Maduro recently announced that his government had captured three generals accused of “plotting a coup.” 

President Michelle Bachalet has sent a bill to establish a ministry that would champion the country’s women and contribute to diminishing the gender inequality that runs deep and wide across Chilean society. 

Witness the newly elected President Salvador Sánchez Cerén of the FMLN. 

Gustavo Petro, former M-19 guerrilla, senator, and mayor of Bogotá was finally removed from power on March 19, 2014.  Petro was dismissed from his post by Attorney General Alejandro Ordóñez (also called the inspector general) in December 2013 over fallout from a botched attempt to overhaul the management of the city’s trash collection services, but

Brazil has sixteen of the 50 most violent cities in the world. 

The military has refused to answer dozens of letters from the Comissão Nacional da Verdade (the National Truth Commission) and federal prosecutors investigating crimes from the era of the dictatorship (1964-85). 

Thousands of Central Americans seeking asylum or refuge from their countries face threats from organized crime, said a representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR). 

A new app shows the locations of past massacres in Colombia. 

The consulting firm, FTI Consulting has published its 2014 Latin America Security Index, ranking Costa Rica as the safest country in Central America and one of the safest countries in Latin America.