impunity

September 13, 2024
Javier Puente

The former strongman’s political project lives on in his ideology of Fujimorismo, championed by his polarizing daughter. Peru’s collective memory will be the judge in the face of enduring impunity.

July 18, 2024
Madeleine Wattenbarger

More than 5,000 migrants have died or disappeared attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border over the last decade. Families embroider the names of their missing loved ones as a way of telling their stories.

June 28, 2024
Suhail Gharaibeh

Mexico City’s former chief of police is believed to have participated in the forced disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students in 2014. A decade later, president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum is poised to make him Mexico’s most powerful policeman.

June 27, 2024
Oscar Pedraza

Among the unanswered questions about the military’s response to the 1985 attack on the seat of the judiciary is what happened to the disappeared victims. New research sheds light on the role of an unassuming museum.

June 27, 2024
Sergio Beltrán-García

As the government hides the staggering proportions of Mexico’s forensic crisis, the searching families of El Bosque de la Esperanza take control of their own narratives to resist stigmatization and erasure.

January 31, 2023
Laura Blume, Diana Meza, and Piper Heath

Amid a widespread culture of impunity, women public figures are killed in Honduras at an alarming rate. 

August 16, 2022
A.S. Dillingham

The Guelaguetza is often a site of politics and protest. This year, one survivor denounced state complicity in the country’s rampant gender violence.

January 4, 2022
Keisha-Khan Y. Perry

For Marielle Franco's sister, the 2018 assassination and impunity surrounding it highlight how racism and misogyny in Brazil treat Black bodies as disposable.

November 14, 2018
Jackie McVicar

The trial against Berta Cáceres’ accused assassins has been riddled with irregularities and bias—and barred the victims' lawyers from participation. It is a tragic lost opportunity for justice in Honduras.

November 9, 2018
Pamela Yates

Thirty years after NACLA first reported on Efraín Ríos Montt’s genocide in Guatemala, its revelations stand the test of time. From our 50th anniversary issue, available open access for a limited time.

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