Conquering Mexico’s misplaced fortitude

Mexico has to root out corruption and impunity if it is ever to hold its head up again. Starting with Iguala.

Postponing the Day of Judgment is wrong

It is a cause for shame that the Nazi murderer Alois Brunner never faced public trial. Now he is dead. Yet that should not mean abandoning the indictment of others who have committed horrendous crimes.

El Salvador seeks justice for El Mozote

Miraculously a wave of retribution is sweeping Latin America leading to the crimes of military dictators and their accomplices being finally brought to trial. El Salvador is the latest to join other countries in pursuing those responsible for crimes against humanity.

The hidden face of Christmas

Complaints have come in about a recent blog of mine on the killing of a Mexican mother seeking justice for the murder of her daughter. What upset some people was not the story itself, but the use of an expletive in the title.