Student Activism in Chile’s Universities
"It's a national disgrace! There's money for Pinochet and not for education!" With this angry message, the students of Santiago's ...
Human Rights after the Dictatorship: Lessons from Argentina
In 1987, as then-President Raúl Alfonsín was proposing a series of laws to abort trials of military officials accused of ...
Chile: Patchwork of Memory
It's summer in the southern hemisphere, and a warm bright- ness permeates the beginning of the days. There is an ...
Looking for Simón: An Emblematic Story of Impunity
Sara Méndez's story has all of the necessary components for a film about the military dictatorships of the Southern Cone: ...
Liberalization on Trial: The Workers’ Movement
The owners of Brazil's automobile and other metal-related industries were caught off guard May 12, 1978, when 3,000 workers at ...
Don’t Believe in Miracles
The U.S. government lost a steadfast ally when the ex-Shah of Iran was forced into exile. The repercussions of that ...
