Latin America’s human rights record has been challenged by the accelerated growth of the extractive industries in the region over the past few decades.
Vera Jarach, one of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo – the protest movement that arose in Argentina in response to the mass disappearance of Argentines during the dictatorship – discusses the search for truth, memory and justice.
We need a structured debate about the lethality of crowd-control weapons, as well as a broader discussion on the core of the problem, which is the inability of states to respond peacefully to peaceful protest.
