The Mothers of the Missing in Latin America

“Across Latin America, the era of the dictators who ruled the region is a fading memory. But the effort to bring to trial the officers and soldiers who ordered and carried out the massacres of villagers or the secret executions of political prisoners has moved forward unevenly.

Garcia is still frustrated in her search for justice, but many other women who joined her in that first meeting in Costa Rica of the mothers of the disappeared are much closer these days to achieving their aim: pressuring their governments to account for thousands of missing people, and bringing to justice those responsible for crimes against humanity….”

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