Today Dossier Liberté is born: an editorial imprint of Cooperativa Liberté for a specific kind of news story —the ones that cross-reference public sources to build an original reading of a problem. These are not primary investigations with unpublished data; they are documentary investigations with all the cards on the table. Every quote, its URL. Every URL, its permanent backup. Every reading, its method explained.
We are debuting it with a first dossier set to publish on Sunday, May 31, 2026: "Solitary cells: the dictatorship systematized them and democracy never abolished them", a piece that cross-references five public sources —three human rights bodies, a statement made by the Argentine State itself before the UN Committee against Torture, and an institutional investigation by the Penitentiary Ombudsman— to show that the isolation cells of today's prison system share a matrix, an architecture and a vocabulary with the clandestine pits of state terrorism.
Why a dedicated imprint for this kind of story
A classic news story reports a fact. A dossier does something different: it connects facts that are already in the public record to reveal a reading the record does not offer on its own. That connection is Liberté's work. And what it offers in return is an editorial guarantee: that every reader can trace each step of the reasoning back to its original source.
That is why the imprint exists. Visually distinguishing this kind of piece commits us to a higher standard than that of an ordinary news story. And it gives the reader an explicit promise: anyone entering a dossier will find sources cited with their URL, archived backups and honest attributions —including when a quote was originally said by an author our source is merely reproducing.
Who builds the dossiers
Although Cooperativa Liberté publishes the dossiers, the editorial work behind each piece is done by a volunteer team from the Taller Solidario Liberté. The two organizations are part of the same community network.
The volunteer team that verifies sources, checks links and builds the dossiers is made up of members of the Taller Solidario Liberté. Their work is voluntary: they do it because they believe publishing pieces to this editorial standard is worth the time. As with every Taller activity, the result is submitted to the Board of Directors of the Cooperative for final institutional approval.
How we work on a dossier
The process for each dossier always follows the same sequence.
First, the library and the archives. We start with the print library we have at Liberté and with the public archives available online from human rights bodies, prison oversight agencies and memory organizations. That is the foundation —non-negotiable.
Second, artificial intelligence as a search tool. We use three AIs from different regions to gather and cross-check information: Qwen (from China), Mistral (from Europe) and Gemini (from the United States). We use them precisely because of their geographic and ideological diversity: each model is trained on a different corpus, carries different biases and prioritizes different sources. By comparing what the three return, we can better identify which information is documented consensus across several sources and which is the invention of a single one. But —and this is central— AIs hallucinate. They invent quotes. They invent pages. They invent authorship. What they say never reaches the reader without going through human verification.
Third, the human team that verifies. The volunteer team from the Taller Solidario Liberté checks every source and every link against its original document before publishing. If the verbatim quote does not appear exactly as the AI said it did, it is corrected or discarded. If the cited page does not contain what it claims to contain, it is discarded. If the attribution is wrong —for example, if what seemed to be said by a body is in fact a verbatim quote from another author being reproduced by that body— the attribution is corrected and the chain is made explicit.
Fourth, the Board's approval. Before publishing, each dossier is submitted to the Board of Directors of Cooperativa Liberté for review and approval. It is the final institutional check that backs the piece as a production of the Liberté network, not only of the volunteer team that built it.
Fifth, the permanent backup. Once published, every cited link is archived on archive.org or on archive.ph. If the original source breaks in the future —because the body changes its site, because the PDF moves to a new URL, because CloudFlare blocks access, because the domain changes hands— the citation remains verifiable through the archived snapshot. Every cite in a dossier shows the link to its backup and the date the URL was checked.
About Juliana, who signs many dossiers
Some dossiers are signed by Juliana. It is important to say this clearly: Juliana is a Community AI of Liberté, not a human writer. But she is not a loose AI that we ask to write and then publish whatever comes out. Juliana is an assistant curated and verified by the volunteer team of the Taller Solidario Liberté. Every word published under her name went —before publication— through the same verification of sources, quotes and links as any other piece. Juliana does not hallucinate because the team does not let her hallucinate. Juliana's byline, in this sense, is a sign of transparency: we are saying "this was written by a community AI, and that is exactly why we verified it with the rigor we apply to everything at Liberté".
What the imprint guarantees
A story bearing the Dossier Liberté imprint guarantees its reader five things:
- Verifiable public sources. Nothing without a checkable URL or a concrete documentary reference.
- Verbatim quotes transcribed. We do not paraphrase what the sources said —we quote them word for word in quotation marks, in context.
- Honest attribution —including chained citations. If a report by one body reproduces a quote from another author, we say so. We do not settle for the institutional facade when the original voice is someone else's.
- Permanent backup on archive. Every link has its snapshot. If the original URL dies, the citation remains checkable.
- Honest disclosures when Liberté builds the bridge. If a connection between sources is one we built ourselves and not one any of them expressly makes, we say so in the piece. We do not put into an author's mouth something the author did not say.
Dossier agenda
As each dossier reaches its date, it is published in full —with all its sources verified and backed up. These are the ones coming up:
#1 · Sunday, May 31, 2026
"Solitary cells: the dictatorship systematized them and democracy never abolished them" — At Batán Penitentiary Unit Nº15 the solitary cells were abolished. Three public bodies, the Argentine State itself before the UN Committee against Torture, and survivor testimonies from the Camps Circuit describe those cells as a shared matrix with the clandestine pits of state terrorism.
The complete catalog of dossiers, with its editorial manifesto and new dossiers as they are published: /dossier-liberte.
And, as with everything Liberté does, the doors remain open. If you find a citation or link error in any dossier, write to us: info@cooperativaliberte.coop. Every correction that reaches us we verify, apply and document in the piece with its date. That, too, is part of the method.
