Judicial authorities in Peru have opened an investigation into Interior Minister Daniel Urresti in connection with the murder of a journalist, sparking calls for his resignation.
Released documents reveal that US diplomats didn't "condone" the use of torture and summary executions by the Brazilian dictatorship—but they certainly didn't condemn it.
A Chilean judge has now confirmed old suspicions that US intelligence agents "played a fundamental role" in the murders of two US citizens in the wake of the 1973 military coup.
A Chilean court completed the 10-year investigation into the origin of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's fortune and suspected embezzlement of public funds.
Uruguayan President Jose Mujica—himself a former political prisoner—announced that his country has agreed to take in five inmates from the Guantánamo Bay prison camp.
A state prosecutor cleared Peru's imprisoned ex-president Alberto Fujimori of charges that he was responsible for the forced sterilization of thousands of indigenous peasant women.
The murky case of a 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center suddenly got murkier thanks to statements by a former Israeli ambassador.
The US Supreme Court ruled that DaimlerChrysler AG does not have to face suit in California for human rights violations by a subsidiary that took place in Argentina.
A Chilean judge found eight former members of the military guilty of murder in the notorious 1973 "Caravan of Death" operation, responsible for the killings of nearly 100.
Bolivia’s elite anti-riot force used tear-gas against survivors of the country’s military dictatorship who protested in La Paz to demand indemnification for torture they suffered.
Once again unidentified men have assassinated a member of the activist Mesino family in broad daylight in Atoyac de Alvarez.
An ex-general in Chile killed himself rather than face transfer to a general-population prison, as trial opened in Quito for three former officers accused in extrajudicial killings.
