Articles by: Lucía Cholakian Herrera

October 1, 2024

A decade after 43 students were forcibly disappeared from Iguala, Mexico, demands to uncover the truth of the Ayotzinapa case persist.

September 24, 2024

Ten years after the Ayotzinapa case blew the lid off Mexico’s ongoing disappearance crisis, anthropologist Claudio Lomnitz unpacks the much bigger picture surrounding the 43 students. 

July 28, 2024

Like in the United States, migration is a big talking point in Venezuela’s election. After an exodus of 7.7 million in the last decade, candidates are promising to help them return.

December 12, 2023

Supporters cheered as the new far-right libertarian president pledged to push austerity measures. But with progressive forces vowing to resist, his shock treatment could backfire.

September 12, 2023

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.

July 29, 2022

Francesca Lessa’s book follows the trials of perpetrators of The Condor Plan, the transnational network of state agents that used torture and violence against the Latin American left during the 1970s.

July 20, 2022

The 1924 attack was finally proven and recognized during the Napalpí truth trials held this year, and reparations have begun.

March 24, 2022

From strengthening their bonds with their readers to redefining their workflows, newsrooms in the region are determined to keep their editorial work going despite media monopolies, and organizational or financial challenges.

November 16, 2020

A land occupation on the outskirts of Buenos Aires showed the cracks in an increasingly unequal system and the resilience of community organization.

May 12, 2020

Ofelia Fernández is the youngest lawmaker in Latin America. Despite online hate, she's leading the youth movement for the political rights of women. 

March 24, 2020

The struggle to hold the military to account for crimes against humanity are a part of Argentinian identity. A group of grandmothers leads the story of that struggle.