This paper examines the often-overlooked economic dimensions of transitional justice in Latin America, arguing that authoritarian violence during the 1960s–1980s was also an economic project designed to suppress redistributive movements and protect capitalist interests. Drawing on the Corporate Accountability and Transitional Justice (CATJ) project, the article shows that contrary to critics who claim transitional justice ignores political-economic root causes of violence, accountability mechanisms in Latin America have in fact pursued corporate complicity in human rights abuses, albeit largely invisibly. Using the metaphor of Archimedes’s lever, the paper explains how victims, civil society actors, and institutional innovators have worked from below to hold economic actors accountable through truth commissions and domestic courts, despite the absence of binding international legal frameworks and the resistance of powerful veto players. Latin America — particularly Argentina, Colombia, and Brazil — leads the world in such efforts. Case studies of Brazil’s National Truth Commission and Argentina’s Techint case illustrate both the potential and the limits of these accountability processes, suggesting that while structural inequalities continue to obstruct justice, grassroots mobilization combined with institutional innovation offers a transferable model for advancing corporate accountability globally.