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Images of Sister Genevieve’s slight frame, standing in solemn prayer just feet from Pope Francis’s body, were beamed around the world. The 82-year-old French...
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Nora Cortinas, one of the so-called “Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo” rights group fighting for answers on the fate of people disappeared under...
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A Paraguayan court has sentenced an 87-year-old former policeman to 30 years in jail for brutal torture carried out during the country’s military dictatorship,...
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Five decades ago, he was a feared policeman nicknamed “the Whip,” an enforcer of Paraguay’s military dictatorship. Today, aged 87, Eusebio Torres is finally...
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Just remember that if you get a dictator, you didn’t do enough to stop it.
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Could a second Donald Trump presidency slide into dictatorship? A sudden spate of dystopian warnings has got America talking about the possibility less than...
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For the first time since Francisco Franco’s death in 1975, a victim who says he was tortured by the dictator’s regime will testify before...
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Just months before the death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, Julio Pacheco Yepes says he was arrested and tortured by police for...
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Experts on Monday began exhuming Spanish civil war victims from a huge basilica near Madrid.
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Far-right protesters in Madrid tussled with police Monday as the remains of a fascist party founder were to be re-buried in a simple grave...