Historic Verdict in Guatemala’s Genocide Case Overturned by Forces of Impunity
On May 10, 2013, before a packed courtroom, a Guatemalan court declared that it had found former de-facto president ...
Fujimori on Trial
"In 1990, I received the country on the verge of collapse, overwhelmed by hyperinflation and terrorism,” Alberto Fujimori shouted defiantly ...
The Rondas: Community-based resistance or an arm of the military?
Some proponents of refugee resettlement argue that peasant defense patrols-rondas campesinas-are the answer to the security concerns of returning ...
Counterinsurgency = Impunity
THE WAR AGAINST SENDERO LUMINOSO HAS become synonymous with the systematic violation of human rights. About half of the nearly ...
The Strongman Solution
"If there is such a thing as a good coup, this one is winning raves in the bazaars of Rawalpindi." ...
Time for a U.S. Truth Commission
This past February, the UN Commission for Historical Clarification published an extensive report on human rights violations committed during the ...
Peru’s Dispossessed Look Homeward
Two years ago, a violent attack on the Ayacuchan village of Nuñunhuaycco-Patahuasi by the fundamentalist Maoist group Shining Path (Sendero ...
Integrity in Journalism
Angel Páez, this year’s winner of the Samuel Chavkin Prize for Integrity in Latin American Journalism, is no stranger to ...
Martín Pumar: Community activist, Peru
What is Casa Alternativa Joven? bout four years ago, a group of young people who were involved in community youth ...
Does “Dialogue” Mean “Impunity” in Chile?
Carmen Vivanco is 83 years old. She looks fragile and timid at first glance, but after a few minutes of ...
Storm Over Columbia
In July 1997, the paramilitary group known as the United Self-Defense Units of Colombia (AUC) went on a grisly killing ...
Plotting Fear: The Uses of Terror in Peru
In July 2000, I was invited by a colleague to attend a conference at San Marcos University in Lima at ...
