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.
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.
¿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.
For transnational adoptees wrenched from El Salvador and Guatemala in the throes of civil war, storytelling and art are powerful tools for navigating identity, dislocation, haunting, and healing.
Disappearance cuts through the Americas. The pain, grief, and resilience of the region's struggles for justice is the focus of our Summer 2024 NACLA Report, "¿Dónde están?"
A new collection from Two Lines Press presents 10 translated stories from contemporary Latin American writers that explore the unsettling, unusual, and unspoken.
March 24 commemorates the victims of state terrorism in Argentina. As President Javier Milei defends perpetrators of genocide, remembering becomes a form of resisting far-right and denialist policies.
A year after the Juliaca massacre killed 19 protesters, no official has been charged with the crimes. In Lima, corruption allegations have become a form of coercion to preserve the status quo.
AMLO promised to deliver truth and justice for 43 disappeared students and their families. The former special prosecutor recounts how his work was undermined.
