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)

Tuesday, 30 September 2008

Peru: Disappeared in Canayre?

Yesterday, La Republica reported that a military operation in the region of Canayre, Ayacucho, caused villagers to flee from their homes. Th...

Monday, 29 September 2008

Film Review: War on Democracy

John Pilger's War on Democracy is reviewed by NACLA: Perhaps the most poignant moment in John Pilger’s latest documentary, The War on De...

Sunday, 28 September 2008

Brazil: Compensation for US torture victim

The Brazilian government has promised to pay compensation to a U.S. pastor who was arrested, beaten and tortured in 1974 under the former mi...

Memorials: Interview with Julián Bonder

Peruvian newspaper La Republica carries in interview with Argentine architect Julián Bonder, whose work includes a monument to the victims o...

Argentina: Dictatorship documents discovered

The head teacher of the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires (one of the most prestigious secondary schools in Argentina) has discovered files c...

Cultural Sunday

The Navy Mechanics' School [ESMA] is no longer a school for marines nor a clandestine centre for torture and death. Yet each corner of t...

Friday, 26 September 2008

Peru: Fujimori 'knew about abuses'

Newly declassified documents from the US suggest that Fujimori must have been aware of human violations committed early in his Presidency. F...

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