An unholy alliance of cops, crooks, prisoners and politicians has turned the nation into a shooting gallery.

This report, published last year, analyses the flaws of the U.S. approach to the fight against drug production in Colombia

Climate change is destroying the dairy industry in some regions of Mexico.

In June 2011, an international commission produced a report that stated that the war on drugs has failed. The report is still very relevant today.

Guatemala's new president, retired General Otto Perez Molina, has joined the growing group of Latin American dignitaries to call for the legalisation of drugs as the only way to combat the powerful drug cartels.

Drugs have cast a dark shadow over one of the most peaceful countries in Latin America.

El Salvador says sorry for the violence of the past, but not a word about the violence of the present: the 'war on drugs' and the security interference by the USA.

Under a radical new arrangement by which the highest ranking judges are voted into office, women and indigenous people are finally getting the top judicial jobs in Bolivia. Report by Emily Achtenberg.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the presidential candidate of a coalition of three left-of-centre parties in the general elections to be held in Mexico in July, is seeking out support from social movements. It is a recognition, says Fred Rosen, that the political parties lack energy and vision.

In Peru, the shadow of the violence of the 1980s is still present in the political debate. Javier Farje, from LAB reports