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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

If you keep looking we will kill you': death stalks those searching for Mexico's disappeared

Relatives searching for the disappeared in Mexico are increasingly being murdered or disappeared themselves, amid rising missing-person numbers and failures to stop organized crime.
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fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Today's Atlantic Trivia: Authoritarianism

The Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, a group of mothers whose children disappeared during Argentina's dictatorship, continue protesting weekly in Buenos Aires nearly five decades after their movement began in 1977.
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

A 15-year-old teenager, missing since 1986, officially recognized as a victim of the Pinochet dictatorship

Luis had been missing for four decades, ever since he disappeared at age 15 during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973–1990). The notice came from a court in Arica, in the far north of Chile, summoning him for failing to vote in the May elections for constitutional councilors, according to records from the Electoral Service (Servel). Under Chile's compulsory voting law, anyone who does not vote must provide a justification; otherwise, they face sanctions.
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