Violence against women in Guatemala reflects deep historical traumas. Review: Seeking Justice for Gendered Violence: Courts, Communities, and Care in Guatemala, Erin Beck and Lynn Stephen, 2026, Duke University Press
Categories: Guatemala
Judiciaries have shaped how abortion has risen up the agenda. Review: The Judicial Politics of Abortion in Latin America: Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico, Jordi Díez, 2025, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico
Coups can tell us all about democracy. Coups d’État in Cold War Latin America, 1964–1982, eds Sebastián Carassai and Kevin Coleman, 2025, Cambridge University Press
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, North America, South America, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
Biden’s policy reversal towards El Salvador’s ‘cool dictator’ exposes the cynical emptiness of the empire’s democratic vocation, writes Gavin O’Toole
Categories: Central America, El Salvador, North America, United States
Are human rights an essential tool of justice—or a neoliberal ‘opium of the people’? Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights, Lara Montesinos Coleman, 2024, Duke University Press
Categories: Colombia, South America
The Social Constitution: Embedding Social Rights Through Legal Mobilization, Whitney K Taylor, 2023, Cambridge University Press
Categories: Colombia, South America
Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay, Debbie Sharnak, 2023, University of Pennsylvania Press
Categories: Argentina, Brazil, North America, South America, United States, Uruguay
Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice, Cristina Rivera Garza, 2023, Bloomsbury
Categories: Mexico, North America
