Brazil has finally decided to follow the example of other Latin American countries and set up a Truth Commission. But, reports Jan Rocha from Sao Paulo, the process is not proving easy.

In Peru, indigenous people question a law that is supposed to benefit them.

Once again, mining becomes a source of conflict in a Latin American country.

The Zapotec indigenous people continue their struggle to have their rights respected.

Chilean artist Valuspa Parra’s installation ‘Minimal Secret’ reproduces texts from declassified CIA documents about the 1973 military coup in Chile.

Since the June 2009 military coup in Honduras at least 34 opposition politicians and more than 300 others have been killed or disappeared, 13 journalists have been murdered and state-sponsored repression rules.

Nick Dearden of the Jubilee Debt Campaign argues that international institutions, such as the World Bank, must take responsibility for the mining projects for which whole communities were driven from their lands in the 1980s and massacred. Sadly, he says, few lessons have been learned.

A catalogue of over 400 films about Argentina's military dictatorship has been compiled by 'Memoria Abierta'.

The publication of a two-volume, multi-disciplinary study of the country's military dictatorship (1964-1985) will make an important contribution to the 'construction of memory' of the years of repression.

As editor of  LAB's newsletter on memoria, Mike Gatehouse looks at the different ways in which Latin America is dealing with its past.