World
When Chilean soldiers broke into her home and dragged her partner from bed on a spring night in 1986, Alicia Lira was 37 years...
Hi, what are you looking for?
Digital Journal
All posts tagged "dictatorship"
World
Nearly five decades after he was born in a dictatorship-era detention center and snatched from his mother, a Buenos Aires man has become the...
World
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...
World
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...
World
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,...
World
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...
World
Just remember that if you get a dictator, you didn’t do enough to stop it.
World
Could a second Donald Trump presidency slide into dictatorship? A sudden spate of dystopian warnings has got America talking about the possibility less than...
World
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...
World
Just months before the death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, Julio Pacheco Yepes says he was arrested and tortured by police for...