Colombia’s Peace Court Delivers Historic Sentence Against Military Officers
The ruling by the transitional justice tribunal, though criticized by some victims, brings hope that the country may soon turn the page.
A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a St...
Haley Cohen Gilliland’s book powerfully tells the story of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, an organization whose challenge to Argentina’s dictatorship is as relevant now as ever before.
Bolsonaro’s Conviction and the Fight Against Amnesty in Brazil
A collective of descendants of former political prisoners weighs in on the historic ruling and the ongoing struggle for truth, justice, and accountability.
Monuments of Mourning: Remembering the Victims of the Key Bridge Collapse
After the Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, Maryland took the lives of six Central American and Mexican men, a grieving community built a memorial to remember them.
Epistemic Violence and the Struggle for Moskitian Historical Memory
Through radio broadcasts and digital archives, Moskitian activists are reclaiming their history, resisting settler colonial erasure, and forging a transnational movement for sovereignty across the western Caribbean.
“Prison Bars Will Not Silence the Truth”
In El Salvador, the movement of families of people deprived of their liberty is sustaining a struggle for a community stripped of its humanity and reimagining justice in the process.
On Isthmian Knowing: Bodies, Archives, Futures
Our Summer 2025 print issue explores how knowledge has been created, challenged, and imagined on the Central American isthmus and across its vast diasporas.
Chile in Their Hearts, and Ours (Review)
The recent book draws upon extensive investigative reporting by John Dinges, who pursues the untold story behind the killings of two Americans by the Chilean military after the coup.
Las Maricas No Olvidamos: Dissident Archives Against Deliberate Erasure
A sex-dissident archive recovers the memory of the struggle to decriminalize homosexuality in Ecuador through affective and archival work that combats invisibilization and patriarchal erasure.
I’m Still Here (Review)
The critically acclaimed film tells the story of the kidnapping and murder of former congressman Rubens Paiva during Brazil’s military dictatorship and his wife Eunice’s struggle to find the truth behind his forced disappearance.
Buscadoras in Mexico Under Threat After Grisly Discovery
News of a mass grave found by civilian search collectives has reopened an old debate about a lack of political will on the part of authorities to investigate violent crime.
“Memory Moves Us”: Argentines Take to the Streets for 24M
In the face of Javier Milei’s deepening attack on civil rights, massive mobilizations in Argentina honor the victims of state terrorism on the Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice.
