Dom Phillips | The Guardian
- Mar 5, 2018
Their forefathers were enslaved. Now, 400 years later, their children will be landowners
It was a modest ceremony for such a significant victory: it is not every day that the descendants of enslaved people are given the title...
Genocide Watch
- Dec 29, 2017
Argentina 'dirty war' killer gets house arrest
An 88-year-old former police officer serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity committed during Argentina's dictatorship was...
Natalie Muller | Deutsche Welle
- Dec 19, 2017
Argentina: Ex-Ford executives on trial for aiding 1970s dictatorship torture
Two former Ford executives are facing court, accused of helping Argentina's military kidnap and torture workers during the 1976-1983...
Meridith Kohut and Isayen Herrera | The New York
- Dec 17, 2017
As Venezuela collapses, children are dying of hunger
SAN CASIMIRO, Venezuela — Kenyerber Aquino Merchán was 17 months old when he starved to death. His father left before dawn to bring him...
International Crisis Group
- Nov 23, 2017
Venezuela: Hunger by Default
What happened? On 14 November, credit ratings agencies declared Venezuela in partial default on its foreign debt, after the country...
David Gonzalez | The New York Times
- Oct 19, 2017
Unearthing a Massacre in Peru
Silent clues to a violent past are buried among the scores of mass graves that dot Chungui district in the mountainous Ayacucho region of...