A debate regarding the truth and its role in reconciliation sparked after Colombia’s FARC-EP assumed responsibility for the murder of Colombian politician, Álvaro Gómez Hurtado.
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The Panama Commission’s identification of remains found from the U.S. invasion in 1989 has been halted because of lack of funds.
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Over 60 collectives of families and social justice groups have denounced the Mexican government’s recent discussions about discontinuing social wellness trusts such as the National Movement for our Disappeared in Mexico (MNDM) and the Fund for Help, Assistance, and Comprehensive Reparations (FAARI), which is a trust that exists to help victims of violence and human
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Che Guevara, a Marxist revolutionary who played a pivotal role in the Cuban Revolution, was killed in Bolivia 53 years ago.
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Chief prosecutor of high complexity crimes, with a law degree from the University of Chile, feminist, granddaughter of Chinese immigrants, and an avid fan of Japanese manga and anime are all ways to describe Ximena Chong.
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The Magistrate of the Special Justice for the Peace (JEP) announced that the former secretariat of the rebel group FARC admitted responsibility for six homicides to the Court of the Recognition of Truth and Responsibility.
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Ex-military and policemen were tried in Tucumán for systematic human rights violations committed during Operation Independence; the trial concluded with a highly criticized ruling of 16 convictions and nine acquittals.
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Massacres have increased in the month of September in Colombia with the main victims being young individuals.
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Six out of ten people who were murdered in Mexico in 2019 had obtained a high school diploma while a quarter of the victims were under the age of thirty.
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In the Amazon of Peru, activists for human rights and for the environment are especially vulnerable to being murdered.
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