Indigenous Women Survivors of Guatemala’s Rape Camps Seek Justice
Forty years after surviving state violence, Maya Achi women return to court to demand justice, challenging a long legacy of ...
Imperfect Justice in Guatemala
A national court has found that the Guatemalan army committed genocide. But it has also found Rodríguez Sánchez, Ríos Montt's ...
A Deal with the Devil: The Fujimori Pardon
Peruvian President Kuczynski's humanitarian pardon for Alberto Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year sentence for human rights violations, was a ...
Guatemalan Genocide Trial Set to Resume Amid Amnesty Battles
Under pressure from entrenched economic and military interests, Guatemala's Constitutional Court undid its historic genocide ruling in 2013. The trial ...
The Torture Report: Latin America’s Lessons for the United States
The Senate report on torture obligates the United States to prosecute those who sanctioned its use. Latin America's efforts can ...
Historic Verdict in Guatemalas Genocide Case Overturned by Forces of Impunity
On May 10, 2013, before a packed courtroom, a Guatemalan court declared that it had found former de-facto president ...
Historic Verdict in Guatemala’s Genocide Case Overturned by Forces of Impunity
On May 10, 2013, before a packed courtroom, a Guatemalan court declared that it had found former de-facto president ...
Historic Verdict in Guatemala’s Genocide Case Overturned by Forces of Impunity
On May 10, 2013, before a packed courtroom, a Guatemalan court declared that it had found former de-facto president General ...
Fujimori on Trial
"In 1990, I received the country on the verge of collapse, overwhelmed by hyperinflation and terrorism, Alberto Fujimori shouted defiantly ...
Peru’s Dispossessed Look Homeward
Two years ago, a violent attack on the Ayacuchan village of Nuñunhuaycco-Patahuasi by the fundamentalist Maoist group Shining Path (Sendero ...
Integrity in Journalism
Angel Páez, this years winner of the Samuel Chavkin Prize for Integrity in Latin American Journalism, is no stranger to ...
Martín Pumar: Community activist, Peru
What is Casa Alternativa Joven? bout four years ago, a group of young people who were involved in community youth ...
