Memory in Latin America

...the news headlines include a number of stories that reflect the persistence of a past that is everlasting and does not wish to pass... (Jelin, State Repression and the Struggles for Memory, 2003)

Monday, 28 April 2008

Temporary Absence

WORK IN PROGRESS I will be quiet with posting over the next week as I prepare for an exam... tempting though it is to procrastinate online!

Sunday, 27 April 2008

Peru Headlines

La Rep ública, in particular, has a number of memory- and human rights-related headlines today: APRODEH is facing a political backlash and ...

Saturday, 26 April 2008

Argentine Dirty War Suspect Detained

'Authorities detained a politician and former police officer targeted in a Dirty War-era human rights probe in Argentina, just hours aft...

Peru: 81 Bodies Found in Los Cabitos

More chilling than the political debates about recognising the MRTA as a current terrorist organisation is this story from La Rep ú blica: l...

Peru angry at EU's decision not to class MRTA as terrorists

Peru's front pages are filled with righteous anger over the decision of the European Parliament not to include the MRTA in its list of t...

Thursday, 24 April 2008

That's the Plaza We Want to See

This article in Pagina/12 caught my eye not specifically because of its main purpose - which is to report on a new educational initiative in...

Colombia Marks a Deadly Date

A little late with this one, but I just noticed it linked from the BBC's Americas page. Colombians remember 9 April 1948, the day on whi...

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