Unearthing Memory: The Present Struggle Over The Past

Unearthing Memory: The Present Struggle Over The Past

For the past three years, tens of thousands of Uruguayans have participated in the May 20 "March for the Truth" ...
Argentina’s Dirty War

Argentina’s Dirty War

In "Recapturing the Memory of Politics" [NACLA, May/June 1998], lnés Izaguirre claims to be speaking against those who violated human ...
A Time of Forgetting The Myths of the Chilean Transition

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 ...
Unsettled Accounts: Militarization and Memory in Postwar Peru

Unsettled Accounts: Militarization and Memory in Postwar Peru

On April 22, 1997, military commandos burst into the residence of the Japanese ambassador to Peru, where rebels of the ...
Guatemala’s REMHI Project: Memory form Below

Guatemala’s REMHI Project: Memory form Below

On April 26, 1998, just two days after publicly presenting the final report of the Recovery of Historical Memory (REMHI) ...
Pinochet: The Great Conciliator

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 ...
The Minefields of Memory

The Minefields of Memory

Processes of democratization after military dictatorships are not easy or smooth.[1] With democratic mechanisms more or less in place in ...
Book Review Essay: Argentina, the United States, and the Anti-Communist Crusade in Central America, 1977-1984 by Ariel Armony

Book Review Essay: Argentina, the United States, and the Anti-Communist Crusade in Central America, ...

This provocative and wellitched book, Ariel Armony examines how the Argentine security forces exported both their ideology and counterinsurgency strategies ...