América Latina tiene aún mucho que enseñar a Europa en la...
Europe has much to learn from Latin America about how to fight injustice and impunity.
Spain: Justice for the judge?
SPAIN: JUSTICE FOR THE JUDGE? On February 9 the Supreme Court in Madrid condemned Judge Baltasar Garzón and debarred him from practising as judge or lawyer for 11 years.
Memoria Abierta: Dictatorship and Memory on the Big Screen
A catalogue of over 400 films about Argentina's military dictatorship has been compiled by 'Memoria Abierta'.
Sentence against El Universo is upheld
National court upholds sentence against El Universo as its editor, Carlos Pérez, is granted asylum in Panama
Honduras: Our Continuing Catastrophe
Since the June 2009 military coup in Honduras at least 34 opposition politicians and more than 300 others have been killed or disappeared, 13 journalists have been murdered and state-sponsored repression rules.
Hallazgo En Batallón 14 Abre Nuevas Expectativas
Forensic anthropologists in Uruguay find human remains buried in a field next to the base of Army Batallion 14.
Guatemala: legacy of terror
Nick Dearden of the Jubilee Debt Campaign argues that international institutions, such as the World Bank, must take responsibility for the mining projects for which whole communities were driven from their lands in the 1980s and massacred.
Brazil: Memory and Justice
The publication of a two-volume, multi-disciplinary study of the country's military dictatorship (1964-1985) will make an important contribution to the 'construction of memory' of the years of repression.
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.