The Oscar-winning film tells the true story of a former Brazilian lawmaker who was abducted under Latin America’s longest ...

I saw the film I Am Still Here directed by Walter Salles, written by a dynamic trio including: Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega, ...

Argentines are unraveling what happened under the country's ruthless dictatorship decades ago. One investigation led to a "death flight" plane, used to throw citizens to their deaths.

Throughout Latin America, the military and political heirs to the terror regimes of the 1960s and 1970s have once again been ...

William Orfield is the author of "Violence of Faction and Factional Violence: The Historical Erosion of American ...

Pro-democracy groups fear the return of dark days of president Suharto’s military dictatorship, which lasted 32 years until ...

Indonesia's parliament has passed controversial changes to legislation that will allow its military a bigger role in ...

Argentina returned to democracy in 1983, but the trauma from those seven years of dictatorship persists. While more than a thousand military officials have been tried and convicted for kidnapping ...

The film has reignited a national conversation over the legacy of the brutal military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985. It has sparked new protests in support of victims ...

I’m Still Here,” a film about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades, gave Brazil’s first Oscars win on Sunday in the best international film ...

In 1964, the Brazilian army overthrew the government, plunging Brazil into a military dictatorship that would rule for more than two decades. Journalism was censored. Suspected dissidents were ...