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GUATEMALA
Ríos Montt to Stand Trial for Genocide
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY - After a hearing that lasted more than 11 hours, a Guatemalan court ordered the trial of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt (1982-1983), who could face up to 30 years in prison if he is convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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SPAIN
Trials of Judge Garzón Called Scandalous by Rights Groups
By Tito Drago
MADRID - Another trial opened Tuesday with Spain's best-known judge, Baltasar Garzón, in the dock for attempting to investigate crimes against humanity committed during the 36-year dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
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EL SALVADOR
Twenty Years of Peace Fail to Bring Prosperity
By Edgardo Ayala
SAN SALVADOR - Two decades after the signing of the Peace Accords, together with the social commitments they contained, El Salvador's levels of poverty and violence are so high that academic and social leaders are proposing new accords to overcome the crisis.
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Salvadoran Poet Roque Dalton's Murder - Case Closed
By Edgardo Ayala
SAN SALVADOR - It was the first time that a Salvadoran judge was holding a hearing to decide whether the case of Roque Dalton, a poet murdered 36 years ago, should go to trial. But the hopes of his family were dashed.
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Peru Clashes with Inter-American Commission Over Human Rights Case
By Ángel Páez
LIMA - The Peruvian government will propose that the Organisation of American States review the powers of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), and is seeking the support of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. The move is a reaction against a lawsuit brought against it by the IACHR.
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Argentina Investigates Human Rights Crimes of Spain's Franco Era
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - A judge in Argentina has begun to investigate human rights crimes committed during Spain's civil war and the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco (1936-1975).
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GUATEMALA
Military Allies Take Ex-Guerrillas, Journalists to Court
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY - Relatives of former military personnel and businessmen are bringing lawsuits against ex guerrillas and journalists in Guatemala in connection with the 1960-1996 civil war – a legal offensive that human rights defenders say is politically motivated.
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GUATEMALA
Archives on Decades of Police Terror Accessible Online
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY - Millions of documents from the Guatemalan national police archive, shedding light on torture, forced disappearances and murders committed during the1960-1996 counterinsurgency war in this country, are now available on-line thanks to a collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin.
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RIGHTS
Brazilians Get Ready to Dig Up the Truth
By Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO - The bill to establish a National Truth Commission in Brazil, which has made it through the lower house of Congress and is now in the Senate, is considered at least a start in clarifying, and preventing a repetition of, the abuses committed during the country's 21-year dictatorship.
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OP-ED-RIGHTS
"We Just Want to Know Where They Are"
By Javier Zúñiga *
LONDON - The last time Supaya Serrano saw her sisters Erlinda and Ernestina, they were just three and seven years old, respectively.
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ARGENTINA
Purging the Legal System of Dictatorship Accomplices
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - As human rights cases from Argentina's 1976-1983 military dictatorship move ahead in the courts, cases of judges and prosecutors who were accomplices in the crimes are coming to light.
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RIGHTS-PERU
Following the Clues in Exhumation of Massacre Victims
By Milagros Salazar
DOCE CORRAL, Peru - The daylight is fading, but Francisca Huanca's hopes are growing brighter. "Yes, they're his sneakers, he liked to play football," she says with tears in her eyes. She has just caught a glimpse of the remains of her husband, nearly three decades after he was murdered in the biggest massacre committed by the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas in Peru's highlands.
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RIGHTS-EL SALVADOR
Rumours of Amnesty Repeal Cause Panic
By Edgardo Ayala
SAN SALVADOR - The mere rumour that El Salvador's Supreme Court (CSJ) might be thinking of repealing the amnesty law was enough to trigger an institutional crisis in this country, showing how fragile its recovery is from the wounds left by the 1980-1992 civil war.
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ARGENTINA
Shedding Light on Dictatorship's Sex Crimes
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - It's been nearly three decades since Argentina's 1976-1983 military dictatorship came to an end, but the sex crimes committed against political prisoners are just now starting to draw more attention, after being pushed into the background in human rights trials.
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Q&A
Re-Electing Fernández 'Would Consolidate the Country Our Children Wanted'
Gustavo Capdevila interviews ESTELA DE CARLOTTO, president of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo
GENEVA - A second term for Argentine President Cristina Fernández would make it possible to continue ushering in the changes "we want and that our children wanted" when they were forcibly disappeared or murdered during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, said longtime human rights champion Estela de Carlotto.
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