Fletcher Reveley, Grave Mistakes: The History and Future of Chile’s ‘Disappeared’ (Undark, Wednesday, February 19, 2025).

~10,300 words: In Chile, the Pinochet dictatorship hid the remains of hundreds of its victims. “Can new forensic science help find them—and regain public trust?”

Steven Dudley, How Organized Crime Set the Agenda for Ecuador’s Presidential Elections (InsightCrime, Wednesday, February 5, 2025).

~3,100 words: Both candidates in Ecuador’s April 13 presidential elections seem determined to satisfy the public’s lust for a “mano dura” approach to crime—whether it will work or not.

La Situacion Actual de Orden Publico en Colombia: Radiografia de un Pais en Guerra (El Espectador (Colombia), Friday, February 21, 2025).

~3,800 words: Violence between armed and criminal groups is worsening in many parts of Colombia right now. This overview documents what is happening in several regions of the country.

Elliott Woods, A Deadly Passage (Texas Monthly, Monday, March 3, 2025).

~8,200 words: Travels to the forgotten parts of Mexico and Guatemala to speak to the relatives of migrants who perished on June 27, 2022, when 53 people from Mexico and Central America died of heat inside the container of a tractor-trailer near San Antonio, Texas.

Christopher Newton, Juliana Manjarres, Marina Cavalari, Insight Crime’s 2024 Homicide Round-Up (InsightCrime, Wednesday, February 26, 2025).

~5,600 words: A country-by-country survey of trends for the most closely documented form of violent crime in the part of the world that accounts for a third of the world’s homicides.