Rethinking Human Rights

As the increasingly independent judicial branch in Argentina has taken important steps to address the legacy of military human rights

Sara Méndez's story has all of the necessary components for a film about the military dictatorships of the Southern Cone:

At the beginning of the 1990s, in academic as well as political circles, it was agreed that Latin America, having

BRASÍLIA—New investigations are being opened into Operation Condor, the shadowy military network of the Cold War era whose key members

Dozens of mostly young people enter a middle-class neighborhood in Buenos Aires. The air is tense with anticipation, drums are

In 1987, as then-President Raúl Alfonsín was proposing a series of laws to abort trials of military officials accused of

In December 1986, amidst great tension and conflict, the Uruguayan Congress approved the so-called "Law Nullifying the State's Claim to

In October 1996, after spending two-and-a-half years in prison on charges of terrorism, Emeteria Quispe Chillce was freed from the

Like many progressive activist organizations found on the Web, the Internet homepage of the National Labor Committee (NLC), a New

Luis Sonihue died on May 12. He was an elderly man from the community of Esse'Eja in Madre de Dios,

Mexico's July 2 elections yielded three significant results: the victory of the modern conservatives headed by President-elect Vicente Fox of

Much has been written about the sea change in international politics produced by the arrest in London and committal for