Navigating in Uncharted Waters: Human Rights Advocacy in Brazil’s “New Democracy”
Almost two decades after the wave of political transitions to "democracy" in South America, the effective protection of human rights ...
CHILE: A Rough Road Home
As I flew over the Andes mountains and into Santiago last July, I heard the high-pitched, excited voices of several ...
Military Rumblings in Argentina
As the increasingly independent judicial branch in Argentina has taken important steps to address the legacy of military human rights ...
On Patricio Guzmán’s
Chile, Obstinate Memory (1997) is a film about the fractured biographical narratives of those whose lived experiences have been erased ...
Ecuador-Underdeveloping Democracy
Ever since August 10, 1979, when young Jaime Rold6s was voted into power after nine years of dictatorship, Ecuador's democratic ...
Voting For Nobody in Chile’s New Democracy
In December 1997, parliamentary elections were held in Chile to renew the entire Chamber of Deputies and half the elected ...
A Time of Forgetting The Myths of the Chilean Transition
Nothing indicated that the Chilean postdictator.ship would be a time of forgetting. Nothing prepared us for the sustained attack against ...
Pinochet: The Great Conciliator
On August 19, on the eve of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the military coup headed by General Augusto Pinochet on ...
