The Latin Americanist: Families of torture victims seek justice in Panama

Families of victims of human rights abuses during

Panama

’s dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s try to find justice though that is difficult since the current president is the son of former strongman Omar Torrijos. Though ex-dictators Torrijos and Manuel Noriega (image) were not as “brutal” as their Southern Cone counterparts, “impunity reigns” confessed the daughter of a torture victim.