Elisabeth Malkin
Monday, October 24, 2016 - 06:56
Mexico’s federal police on Friday arrested a fugitive former municipal police chief who is a major figure in the investigation into the disappearance of 43 college students in September 2014.
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 - 06:53
The central accusation of the study on the massacre in Allende is the failure at every level of government, from local police to the federal attorney general’s office, to undertake an investigation of the killings.
Monday, August 1, 2016 - 15:06
In a ruling that clears the way for El Salvador to prosecute the perpetrators of war crimes committed during its brutal civil war, the country’s highest court has struck down an amnesty law that has protected soldiers, rebel fighters and death squads for more than two decades.
Monday, June 6, 2016 - 06:50
A new report by the Open Society Justice Initiative alleges that Mexico's tactics in its ongoing struggle against drug trafficking constitute Crimes Against Humanity.
Monday, February 8, 2016 - 05:04
Breaking years of inaction over one of the most emblematic cases from El Salvador’s brutal civil war, Salvadoran police have begun to arrest former military officers who are accused in the killings of six Jesuit priests, a housekeeper and her teenage daughter.
Friday, January 22, 2016 - 07:22
His arrest in Spain only served to underscore the weakness of Mexico’s institutions when it comes to confronting corruption among the political class.
Thursday, January 7, 2016 - 06:59
The Guatemalan authorities on Wednesday arrested 18 former military officers on charges related to massacres and disappearances during the 1980s. The U.S. equipped and trained Guatemalan security forces during the country's civil war.
Tuesday, September 22, 2015 - 06:14
In El Salvador, torn by social discord and a surge of criminal violence, hope seems dim for the nation’s youth. But Rodrigo Bolaños, the general manager of the League factory here, believes in small triumphs.
Thursday, September 17, 2015 - 06:48
Experts have identified a bone fragment from the second of 43 missing students from a rural teachers’ college who disappeared almost a year ago in a case that has rocked Mexico.
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 - 06:16
The real test now is whether that new boldness and optimism will result in a tangible difference in Guatemalans’ lives. Will it give doctors at Roosevelt Hospital the resources to do the simple things they cannot do now — like sending a patient downstairs for an X-ray or giving out medicine?