American Commission on Human Rights

Some 80 armed men attacked an indigenous community on Nicaragua's northern Caribbean coast, killing several people, authorities said on Jan. 30. Local leaders said there were six dead, while police said two died.

The remains of a second of 43 missing Mexican students have possibly been identified, authorities said on Sept.16, almost a year after a crime that rocked President Enrique Pena Nieto's administration.

Mexican authorities insisted on Sept.7 that a large number of the 43 students who disappeared last year were incinerated at a landfill, after an independent probe contradicted the official conclusion.

Mexico's official account of the abduction and apparent massacre of 43 students last year does not add up, a team of international experts said on Sept.6, citing deep flaws in the government's investigation and dismissing its claims that the victims were incinerated in a garbage dump.