Mexico: A Time to Kill
Between June 8 and 10, 1998, members of the Mexican army and the police killed 11 campesinos in the state ...
Former Dictator Arrested for Stealing Children During Dirty War
BUENOS AIRES-Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla (1976-1978) was arrested June 9 on charges that he was responsible for the ...
The Children of War: Street Gangs in El Salvador
Edgar Bolaños, also known as Shy Boy, trudges to the edge of a soccer field with his friernd Scrappy a ...
LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH Anger and Disenchantment on the Margins
In 1992, during the Los Angeles riots sparked by the police beating of Rodney King, nearly 1,000 Salvadoran youths were ...
Heroes or Hooligans: Media Portrayals of Peruvian Youth
On February 28, 1995, hundreds of people marched through the streets of Comas, a popular district in northern Lima, to ...
A Call to Arms
On June 2, 1998, the New York Times ran a front-page report on U.S. military aid to Colombia. The articleall ...
Latin American Journalists Under the Gun
On May 20, 1998, Alfredo Yabràn, a leading Argentine businessman and the main suspect in a criminal investigation that sent ...
Soccer and Devotion in the Barrios of Santiago
The empty lots of land which dot the and landscapes of Santiago's urban periphery were once planned as tree-lined plazas ...
