Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Book review: The Ministry of Special Cases

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Nathan Englander, The Ministry of Special Cases (Knopf) I’m a member of a book-swapping website, so when a book popped up that I’d ne...
Tuesday, 19 May 2015

Argentina: The ESMA then and now

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I enjoy looking at those photos where they juxtapose old and new images to highlight where past events took place. There's been a flurry...
Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Book review: The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón

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The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón, by Carlos Gamerro, translated by Ian Barnett in collaboration with the author, published 2015 by A...
Thursday, 26 March 2015

German president in Peru

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German president Joachim Gauck was visiting Peru, although his visit was cut short by news of the plane crash in France. With that in mind, ...
Monday, 26 January 2015

Latin American connections with the Holocaust

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Tomorrow we commemorate 70 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. Utero.pe has a fascinating article on the Peruvian victims of Auschwit...
Sunday, 11 January 2015

Peru: Retablos by Edilberto Jiménez

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At the Biblioteca Virtual del Genocidio en Ayacucho , you can now see photographs of the amazing retablo scenes made by Edilberto Jiméne...

Guatemala: A forensic anthropologist who brings closure for the "disappeared"

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Thanks to Mike from Central American Politics for drawing my attention to this TED talk by Fredy Peccerelli on his work as a forensic an...