Truth & Memory

September 3, 2024
Daniel Cholakian

As the government takes aim at memory policies upheld during the past 40 years of democracy, pro-government lawmakers visit prisoners convicted of crimes against humanity.

 
June 27, 2024
Nelson de Witt/Roberto Coto

A transnational adoptee born in El Salvador and raised in the United States shared his journey to uncovering his family's truth and finding his voice as a desaparecido.

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
Malena Nijensohn and Luciana Serrano

As a far-right, denialist government threatens to roll back hard-won gains, Argentine feminists and the mothers and grandmothers fighting for justice for the disappeared remain linked in a decades-old friendly bond of struggle.

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.

June 12, 2024
Daniela Díaz Rangel and Joshua Collins

The ruling against the banana giant formerly known as United Fruit makes history in holding a U.S. company liable for abuses committed abroad. Lawyers say the case is just the beginning.

June 4, 2024

Don't miss the web exclusive content of our Summer 2024 issue, ¿Dónde están?, on disappearance across the Americas. 

June 4, 2024
Angélica Cuevas-Guarnizo

For the Mothers of Soacha, murals, performances, and tattoos create a living monument of grief and defiance in their search for the truth about the thousands of “false positives” killed and disappeared in Colombia.

June 4, 2024
Constanza Dalla Porta

Exhumation of a mass grave in Santiago finally promised answers, but botched DNA testing left the families of victims reeling. Five decades later, the search for truth continues.

June 4, 2024
Marco Castillo

¿A dónde están? Where are they? In Paraguay, the answer to the question of those seeking justice for the disappeared is blunt: they are in the backyard of the elite police headquarters 15 minutes from downtown Asunción.

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