Ayotzinapa Case Fugitive Interviewed by Israeli Magazine
Washington, D.C., April 14, 2023 - Tomás Zerón’s rehabilitation tour has begun.
35+ YEARS OF FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACTION
Mexico and Central America
After Ayotzinapa Podcast Wins Prestigious Journalism Award
Washington, D.C., April 3, 2023 - Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) today announced that the National Security Archive and its partner, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, are winners of a 2022 IRE Award for “Longform Journalism in Audio” for producing the After Ayotzinapa podcast.
In selecting After Ayotzinapa for the award, IRE judges called it “a jaw-dropping chronicle of a horrendous crime and the lengths that Mexican authorities went to cover it up.”
Guacamaya Leaks and the Ayotzinapa Case
Washington, D.C., March 10, 2023 - Years before 43 young men from the Ayotzinapa teachers’ college were attacked and forcibly disappeared in Iguala, Guerrero, the Mexican military had the school under surveillance and considered its students to be subversives, according to internal communications and documents from the Mexican armed forces published today by the National Security Archive.
Inter-American Court Orders Opening of Military Archives
Washington, D.C., January 24, 2023 - On Friday, January 20, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights set a new legal precedent for access to human rights information when it ordered the government of Bolivia to open historical military archives concerning a case of assassination and forced disappearance. The sentence in Flores Bedregal v.
Salvadoran General Deported from U.S. for Command Role in Human Rights Crimes During El Salvador Civil War
tags: Center for Justice and Accountability, El Salvador, Vides Casanova
by The Archive
General Vides Casanova] Credit: Latin America News Dispatch.
General Vides Casanova. Photo Credit: Latin America News Dispatch.
Violations Cited in Justice Department Ruling Include Torture of Salvadoran Citizens, Murder of Four American Churchwomen, Among Others
By Alexandra Smith
Justice Department “Reclassifies Documents,” Fights to Withhold Ground-breaking Immigration Court Decision on El Salvadorian Vides Casanova
by Emily Willard
UPDATE: 7 May 2013, Department of Justice releases less-redacted version of decision. See less-redacted version of decision here. The New York Times is still waiting on a response to a FOIA request to the DOJ for release of the entire court record of this case including transcripts and expert witness testimony on declassified documents.
Document Friday: El Salvador’s Debate on Amnesty and Historical Memory
by Emily Willard
-Notes from the Evidence Project-
Today marks the 23rd anniversary of the massacre of six Jesuit Priests in El Salvador, along with their house keeper and her 16 year-old daughter on November 16, 1989. For Document Friday, the National Security Archive is posting newly released documents regarding the case, filed by the Center for Justice and Accountability in August 2009, against 20 former El Salvadoran officials in the National Court in Spain for their involvement in the massacre.
Wikileaks El Salvador: Cables Report Salvadoran Disapproval of International Investigations
by Rachel Hatcher
US Embassy staff report that representatives from both the Salvadoran right and left expressed disapproval of possible international investigations into crimes committed during the Civil War.
Ignacio Ellacuría, killed in 1989.
Missing El Salvador Documents 3.0: Documents Found!
by Emily Willard
The Recovered Documents