Struggling for Truth and Reconciliation in Uruguay
Proposed legislation calls into question how far the current government is willing to go to help victims of the dictatorship find justice.
“A Body That Does Not Die in the Act of Being Erased”
Tracing a journey from the gold mines of Timbiquí to the Pacific and on to Cali, Eblin Grueso’s Viaje en el Tiempo activates memory as a detonating force that affirms Black life.
“No Football Between The Concentration Camps”
The 1978 World Cup, hosted by Argentina’s military dictatorship, spawned powerful calls for a boycott, demands that echo today in the U.S. as social movements confront rising authoritarianism through fútbol.
While the World Shouts Goal, Mexico Seeks Its Disappeared
As the eyes of the world shifted to Mexico for the FIFA World Cup, the families of the thousands of disappeared tried to bring their plight to a global stage.
Desiring Temporalities in the Face of Permanent War
The Summer 2026 issue of the NACLA Report explores artistic and cultural practices that activate memory, engage the archive, and expand the possibilities of collective life.
Miguel Krassnoff and the Memory Question in Chile
New charges against one of the Pinochet dictatorship’s most prominent human rights abusers come as the country shifts markedly to the right, casting historical memory in doubt.
Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet’s Chile (Review)
Katia Chornik's book details how music was used as a form of torture and resistance during the Pinochet dictatorship.
The Labor of Human Rights at a Time of Rising Fascism
What imprisoned Salvadoran researchers taught us about documenting torture, and why their work matters in an age of open authoritarianism.
In His Father’s Name, an Indigenous Man Takes on the Government for Abuses at the Krenak Reformatory...
An Indigenous man in Brazil endured torture and forced labor for 19 months in a dictatorship “concentration camp”. Fifty-five years later, his son seeks justice.
Feminist Fútbol and Historical Memory in Argentina
As Argentina marks 50 years since the beginning of its last bloody dictatorship, a feminist fútbol club in Buenos Aires keeps the memory of the disappeared alive as the government fosters negationism.
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia (Review)
Philipe Sands’ book on the attempts to hold a Nazi leader and Chilean dictator accountable provide lessons for today’s era in which the flouting of international law has become routine.
Guatemala’s Ongoing Memory Battles
For over ten years, Angélica Macario has sought to preserve the archive of the Council for Ethnic Community Runujel Junam in a struggle to keep the memory of the genocide alive.
