Human Rights
Friday, April 5, 2013 - 00:00
Hugo Bernal, a soldier who was a mechanic in an engineering brigade in the area where atrocities were carried out, told the court that Otto Perez Molina, now president, ordered soldiers to burn and pillage during Guatemala's dirty war.
Friday, April 5, 2013 - 00:00
The daughter of a well-known Cuban dissident who died in a car wreck last year stepped up calls on Thursday for an independent, international investigation of the case
Friday, April 5, 2013 - 00:00
Se calcula que solamente cerca de 2800 de los postulados estan activos en procesos penales - cerca de mil privados de la libertad - y en siete anos solamente se han proferido cuatro condenas. Es decir, es un proceso signado por la impunidad
Friday, April 5, 2013 - 00:00
Estructuras denominadas Cuerpos Ilegales y Aparatos Clandestinos de Seguridad (CIACS), operan hoy dia, despues de 16 anos de suscritos los compromisos de paz y, peor aun, han evolucionado merced a su fusion con el aparato de criminalidad organizada
Friday, April 5, 2013 - 00:00
"Los militares y los soldados a las ordenes del mayor Tito Arias, conocido como Otto Perez Molina; el general -Jose Luis- Quilo Ayuso y (...) los comandantes de las companias de ingenieros coordinaban la quema y saqueo de la gente para luego ejecutar
Friday, April 5, 2013 - 00:00
Critics say that statements made by Congressman Feliciano of the Christian Social Party show that he is homophobic and racist. Feliciano was elected to head the commission last month
Friday, April 5, 2013 - 00:00
Para is among Brazil's most violent and lawless states, notorious for land-related violence, contract killings, slave-like labor conditions and wanton environmental destruction
Friday, April 5, 2013 - 00:00
The men were sentenced to more than 40 years in prison. A third man accused of masterminding the attack was acquitted
Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 00:00
In this extract, the anonymous duo behind the Blog del Narco tell why they risk their lives to document Mexico's war on drugs
Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 00:00
In 1982, President Ronald Reagan met with Rios Montt, praising his efforts as a heroic fight against Marxist guerrillas.