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RIGHTS-PERU: Aprista Party Members Under Investigation for ’80s Crimes
By Ángel Páez
LIMA - The Peruvian justice system is to prosecute members of the governing American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA, or Aprista Party) for creating the Rodrigo Franco Commandos (CRF), a paramilitary unit alleged to have murdered five people during the first administration of current President Alan García (1985- 1990).
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PERU: Montesinos Defends Fujimori, Then Clams Up
By Ángel Páez
LIMA - Vladimiro Montesinos, the second most powerful person in the regime of former President Alberto Fujimori in Peru (1990-2000), has admitted in court that crimes were committed during intelligence operations he directed.
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EL SALVADOR: President’s ‘Path to Peace’ Award Draws Outcry
By Raúl Gutiérrez
SAN SALVADOR - The decision by a Catholic foundation with links to the Vatican to award its highest distinction to Salvadoran President Antonio Saca drew a wave of protests from local analysts and representatives of civil society in this Central American country.
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PERU: Acquittals for Lawmakers Accused of Taking Bribes
By Ángel Páez
LIMA - A court in Peru acquitted nine former lawmakers accused of taking bribes to switch party allegiance and vote with the government of former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), so as to assure him majority support for his initiatives.
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RIGHTS-PERU: Unburying the Evidence of Biggest ‘Dirty War’ Massacre
By Ángel Páez
LIMA - It was not hard to find the remains of the victims, some of whose bones were actually exposed to the elements. But it took 24 years for the people of the highlands village of Putis in southern Peru to get a response to their insistent requests for exhumation and identification of the remains.
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RIGHTS-CHILE: Amnesty Report Highlights Impunity
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - The Amnesty International Report 2008 on the state of the world’s human rights, released Wednesday, expresses disappointment in Chile’s delay in seeking truth, justice and reparations for the victims of crimes committed during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).
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RIGHTS-CHILE: Historic Mass Arrest of Soldiers
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - In an unprecedented decision, Chilean Judge Víctor Montiglio ordered the arrest of 98 former members of the security forces in connection with the abduction and killing of 42 leftists in 1974.
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Q&A: The Public Image of Chile's Post-Pinochet Military
Interview with FLACSO Chile Director Claudio Fuentes
SANTIAGO - "Chilean society does not want to forgive and forget; it wants justice" in human rights abuse cases, says historian and political scientist Claudio Fuentes, one of the authors of a new study that takes a look at how Chilean perceptions of the armed forces changed from 1991 to 2007.
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CHILE: Courts Active in Human Rights Cases, but Results Mixed
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - A concert was held in the Chilean capital Monday to protest a judge’s decision to close the case involving the murder of folksinger Víctor Jara, who was killed by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet 35 years ago.
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RIGHTS-EL SALVADOR: Exhuming Memory
By Eric Lemus
CIUDAD BARRIOS, El Salvador - One of the men comes across a plastic thread and stops digging. He starts to carefully remove the dirt until unearthing a piece of material that he hands to an elderly woman, who is silently observing the exhumation of the remains of victims of El Salvador’s 12-year civil war.
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PARAGUAY: Torture Victim Still Fears Colorado Party ‘Mafia’
By Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO - The Colorado Party has become a "criminal mafia" during its 61 years in government in Paraguay, and it will continue to be a force to be reckoned with in spite of its defeat in last month’s elections, says Anuncio Martí, a Paraguayan citizen living in exile in Brazil.
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PERU: Government Lashes Out at Human Rights Groups
By Ángel Páez
LIMA - The Peruvian government, with the backing of the parliamentary bloc that supports former President Alberto Fujimori, has unleashed a campaign against non-governmental organisations that defend human rights, according to activists and lawyers.
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RIGHTS-PERU: Fujimori Hemmed In
By Ángel Páez
LIMA - After 50 days of hearings, the Peruvian court trying former President Alberto Fujimori has heard virtually incontrovertible evidence that the former president was responsible for kidnappings and for two massacres of civilians perpetrated in the early 1990s, according to prosecutor Avelino Guillén.
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