As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews.

Families of victims and advocacy groups condemn law that covers internal armed conflict from 1980 to 2000

Gisela Ortiz was 19 years old in 1992 when her brother Enrique was forcibly disappeared from La Cantuta University by a military death squad, along with eight other students and a professor. I first m...

Declaración pública de condena ante la eliminación de los límites a la reelección presidencial en El Salvador

Survivors of Peru’s internal armed conflict fear a new amnesty law will shield military and police from accountability.

Survivors of Peru’s internal armed conflict fear a new amnesty law will shield military and police from accountability.

The ruling in favor of state Democrats will likely be appealed.

Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's drive to consolidate his grip on power and crack down on critics and humanitarian organizations has forced a leading human rights organization to suspend operations in the country and go into exile, the group told Reuters.

La Corte de Constitucionalidad avala por mayoría el cambio de tribunal ordenado por la Sala de Mayor Riesgo en el caso contra el militar acusado de delitos contra los deberes de la humanidad y desapar...

As the shortest kid in school, I was an easy target for bullies. When I was about eight, I befriended a kind teenager wh

Contrary to conventional wisdom, anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed 2017 in size, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.

Forcibly removing a sitting US senator, as they opposed the president's immigration policy, is a part of a broader slide.

Forty years after surviving state violence, Maya Achi women return to court to demand justice, challenging a long legacy of impunity for crimes against humanity.

Federal courts possess a number of tools to ensure the U.S. government is held responsible for failing to enforce or execute court orders.

Peruvian mining sector worker Frank Monzón was aware of the risks, but the lure of gold deep in the Andean rock of northern Pataz province outweighed the danger. Now he and 12 others are dead in one of the country's worst mining massacres.

Confused about the oft-mentioned Alien Enemies Act? This explainer, with links to free peer-reviewed scholarship, may help clear things up.

We asked three leading scholars of McCarthyism and political repression in the US how Donald Trump’s war on higher education, free speech, and political dissent compares to the 1950s anti-Communist Re...

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La comunidad periodística global denuncia que, con la Ley N.º 32301, el gobierno de Dina Boluarte ha instaurado un mecanismo legal de censura. La norma le da al Estado el poder de aprobar o bloquear i...

The president is trying to rewrite the narrative of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s wrongful deportation as a dispute about illegal immigration rather than the rule of law.

The late-night order from the Supreme Court came amidst fears the Trump administration was preparing for more flights to El Salvador as soon as Saturday.