The decades-long civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo is leaving in its wake a police state that sees impoverished youth as a threat and seeks to exterminate them.
The Mexican government attributes the massacre of students in September entirely to local corruption and drug dealing. A new report raises the possibility of a cover-up.
Austrian experts have identified remains of one of 43 missing Guerrero students. Meanwhile, the authorities want laws to limit the protests over the students' abduction.
Mexican protesters in the US see a link between police killings in the two countries. "Our governments are working together to oppress us, so why shouldn't we be working together?"
Mexico's president may have recited a slogan popular with protesters, but crackdowns on activists suggest he isn't about to give in to their demands.
Central Americans crossing Mexico on their way to the US border still face attacks by criminal gangs—and so do Mexican activists trying to help the migrants.
Using the pretext of last spring's uptick in immigration by Central American children, the US is pushing for still more of its failed "drug war" and "free trade" policies.
Colombian Gen. Ruben Dario Alzate resigned one day after his release by FARC guerillas who had captured the top official unarmed in rebel-controlled territory.
Media reports in Brazil suggest that the crackdown on favela gangs in the prelude to this year's contentious World Cup was actually a police extermination campaign of favela youth.
The US media continue to play down the crisis in Mexico, but investors and foreign leaders are starting to show concern as the protests continue to swell.
"Citizen journalists" who continued to report on the bloody cartel wars in Tamaulipas after the newspapers were terrorized into silence are now being targeted for assassination.
A mass killing in several poor neighborhoods seems to be the work of an elite police unit. Based on Brazil's record, the police agents are unlikely to face criminal charges.
