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Controversial victims on Chile's official list
Some Chileans are upset that two people who collaborated with Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and an alleged leftist assassin can now get $256 a month in compensation as victims of torture.Lorena Pizarro, president of a group of families of the detained and disappeared, demanded Monday that a national commission remove socialist Luz Arce and communist Miguel Estay Reyno, who collaborated with

Chile recognizes 9,800 more Pinochet victims
Chile officially recognized 9,800 more victims of its dictatorship on Thursday, increasing the total number of people killed, tortured or imprisoned for political reasons to 40,018.

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DomRep museum to honor victims of dictatorship

A new museum honoring the more than 50,000 people who died under former dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo is scheduled to open Sunday, a day before the 50th anniversary of his death.

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A death in Paraguay buries dictatorship's secrets
A top police official under Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner has died, carrying some big secrets with him.

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Paraguay unveils archives from dictatorship

Human rights activists gained access Wednesday to a dictatorship-era military archive that appears to contain long-held secrets about Paraguay's persecution of opponents during Alfredo Stroessner's

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Brazil apologizes for persecution of poor farmers

The Brazilian government has apologized for the torture and abuse of 44 poor farmers under the military regime that ruled the country from 1964 to 1985 and announced reparations for the victims.

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