Truth & Memory

April 12, 2024
Liliana Torpey

A new collection from Two Lines Press presents 10 translated stories from contemporary Latin American writers that explore the unsettling, unusual, and unspoken.

March 28, 2024
Daniel Cholakian

March 24 commemorates the victims of state terrorism in Argentina. As President Javier Milei defends perpetrators of genocide, remembering becomes a form of resisting far-right and denialist policies.

January 10, 2024
George Ygarza

A year after the Juliaca massacre killed 19 protesters, no official has been charged with the crimes. In Lima, corruption allegations have become a form of coercion to preserve the status quo.

The Instruction (Part III) by John Gibler. "State terrorism." (THIAGO DEZAN / CIDH / CC BY 2.0)
November 22, 2023
John Gibler

AMLO promised truth and justice. The former special prosecutor reveals how the administration derailed the case and sided with the Army.

November 21, 2023
John Gibler

AMLO promised to deliver truth and justice for 43 disappeared students and their families. The former special prosecutor recounts how his work was undermined.

November 9, 2023
Manuel Sánchez Cabrera

President Nayib Bukele leverages an antagonistic stance against El Salvador’s past to consolidate his political power.

October 27, 2023
Doc M. Billingsley

Victoria Sanford's book is a powerful testimony to the historical roots of routine violence against women in Guatemala, portraying the life, struggles, and personality of human beings who are otherwise lost in dire statistics.

October 6, 2023
Linda Farthing

After a 16-year legal battle, former head of state Gonzalo "Goni" Sánchez de Lozada must compensate the families of victims extrajudicially killed in the 2003 Gas War.

September 19, 2023
Nyki Duda

Linked to disappearances in Paine, José Antonio Kast, a rising star in Chile's far-right Republicano Party, gains national prominence with Pinochet-era nostalgia.

September 12, 2023
Lucía Cholakian Herrera

Scenes from Santiago capture the ongoing struggle for truth and justice, half a century after the beginning of a reign of state terror under Pinochet's dictatorship.

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