Over the past decade, Latin America has seen a resurgence of prosecution of individuals responsible for massive human rights violations during recent authoritarian regimes.

The UK arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998 proved to be merely a first milestone: his Peruvian counterpart Alberto Fujimori recently became the first former head of state ever extradited to his home country to stand trial for human rights crimes. Read the rest of this entry »

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