Center for Security Studies

Lynching in Latin America (LYLA) dataset

Euro Atlantic

The Lynching in Latin America (LYLA) dataset has now been released. It was created by Enzo Nussio, Govinda Clayton, and a team of collaborators at the CSS and is the first cross-​national lynching event dataset. The LYLA data captures 2818 reported lynching events across 18 Latin American countries from 2010 to 2019.

by Rena Uphoff
LYLA

Find more information on the database here (also in Spanish)

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