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Pilar Navarrete: Tale of a forced disappearance (I)

In November 1985, the Palace of Justice in Colombia went up in flames. The then-guerrilla group, M-19, had taken over its facilities and, after confronting the government and military forces, tragedy erupted. The result was almost 100 dead people, with several tortured or disappeared. Eleven cafeteria workers never imagined that it was going to be the last time that they would see their families. Today the truth remains hidden.

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Forbidden to forget (2): The ultraright and the increase in hate crime

Although the exact number of people tortured and murdered by Nazi forces is unknown, researchers say that more than six million Jews and innumerable prisoners of war, Gypsies, disabled people, homosexuals, communists, ethnic minorities and members of various religious groups were massacred. The horrors of the past return today to […]