Truth Commissions: Exhuming the Past
As repressive regimes fade, questions about the past are often central to the politics of the present. Human rights leaders ...
U.S. Embassy Officials Detained in War Zone
CHIAPAS—Two U.S. army officers linked to the U.S. Embassy, Assistant Army Attaché Thomas Gillen and First Sergeant Elizabeth Krug, were ...
On Patricio Guzmán’s
Chile, Obstinate Memory (1997) is a film about the fractured biographical narratives of those whose lived experiences have been erased ...
Walking Through the Nightscapes of Bogotá
Dark, hairy hands reach towards my right arm to stop me. I shuffle to my left to avoid the unwanted ...
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
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
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
On April 22, 1997, military commandos burst into the residence of the Japanese ambassador to Peru, where rebels of the ...
