• Justice: The First Casualty of Truth?
    Apr 12, 2001
    "International justice" is already beginning to be a plausible backstop when national justice fails or a perpetrator flees.
  • Fox Steps Up to the Plate on Human Rights
    Feb 15, 2001
    When President Bush visits with Mexico President Vicente Fox today, he may find something new: a Mexican leader ready to discuss human rights problems--in Mexico and in the United States.
  • Fox Steps Up to the Plate on Human Rights
    Feb 15, 2001
    When President Bush visits with Mexico President Vicente Fox today, he may find something new: a Mexican leader ready to discuss human rights problems--in Mexico and in the United States.
  • Mexico's Presidential Candidates Can't Ignore Calls for Human-Rights Reforms
    Jun 25, 2000
    Mexico's July 2 presidential elections may prove to be the cleanest in that country's history. But though Mexico has made important strides toward electoral fairness, it's important to realize that the country's human-rights record is not keeping pace. Without the institutions to support a solid democracy, especially a trustworthy justice system, Mexico's vaunted political transformation will fail to deliver on its promise of a better future.
  • Ready for Justice
    Oct 14, 1999
    Returning home after a year's absence, I am astonished at the change. On the eve of the anniversary of the arrest last Oct. 16 of Augusto Pinochet, Chilean democracy has weathered the storm.
  • One Year Later, The 'Pinochet Precedent' puts Tyrants on Notice
    Oct 14, 1999
    In the year since the arrest of Augusto Pinochet, the world has become a smaller place for people who are accused of committing atrocities.
  • Sanctioning brutality in Colombia
    Aug 9, 1999
    Colombia's military and its Washington admirers claim that the most abusive army in the hemisphere has turned over a new leaf. Soldiers, they say, have purged human rights violators within their ranks and are pursuing the paramilitaries that have converted much of the country into a killing ground.
  • Annals from the Bureaucracy of Death
    Feb 28, 1999
    President Clinton stunned Latin America recently by apologizing to the people of Guatemala for U.S. support for repressive military forces there during the Cold War. His forthright statement ended Washington's denial of U.S. complicity in Guatemalan atrocities.