Honduras: deaths foretold
Back in 2006, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) had ordered the Honduran government to take urgent measures to improve prison conditions.
Argentina: human rights trials
Eight judical investigations into human rights abuses committed under the dictatorship are under way. In Spanish.
Chile: waging war on memory
The Chilean Minister of Education has removed the term 'military dictatorship' from the national curriculum for primary education. Understandably, human rights groups have expressed alarm.
Memory, Justice and Impunity
As editor of LAB's newsletter on memoria, Mike Gatehouse looks at the different ways in which Latin America is dealing with its past.
PERU: WHEN IS A MUSEUM NOT A MUSEUM?
The Museo de la Memoria in Peru has caused a great deal of debate about the country´s recent violent past.
Native Peruvians See Loopholes in Prior Consultation Law
In Peru, indigenous people question a law that is supposed to benefit them.
Amazon: Impunity for loggers
Amazon: Impunity for loggers. Last year two men from the state of Pará reported to the Brazilian authorities the systematic, large-scale plundering of hard timber within protected forest areas in the Amazon basin.
ARGENTINA: THE FUTURE OF MEMORY
Andrés Jaroslavsky is the author of LAB book The Future of Memory: Children of the dictatorship in Argentina Speak*.
Colombia: a state of flux
If Colombia is to overcome its legacy of violence and insecurity, the beleaguered justice system must be strengthened, argues Adam Isacson from WOLA.
Santiago Xanica: A Zapotec Village’s Fight for Autonomy in Mexico
The Zapotec indigenous people continue their struggle to have their rights respected.