Terrorism in Peru
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One peaceful August morning in 1991, my grandfather, Orlando Zamalloa, was getting ready to go to work in Cusco, a small city in southern Peru…
Theme: Violence
Repression and Resilience in Nicaragua
On July 19, supporters of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega celebrated the 40th anniversary of the popular uprising that toppled the Somoza family dictatorship and swept Ortega’s Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) into power. For the majority of the country…
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Nicaragua: Images of Division
Elsa Valle Montenegro, 19, was inside a friend’s home following an anti-government demonstration in Managua when police burst in. Members of Consejos del Poder Ciudadano, a system of neighborhood government informants, saw Valle enter the home after taking part…
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Salvadoran Youth, Transnationalism’s Other Product
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A completely distraught junior high school teacher in the Washington DC area approached her assistant principal—a highly-educated white middle-class man—one morning for urgent…
Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century
Archive for "Violence"Page 9 A Review of Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st...
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