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)

Sunday, 31 January 2010

Peru: Pucará Trial On, Despite Govt Interference

I noted in June 2009 that a trial had opened concerning the 1989 Pucará massacre. I then lost track of the issue completely, until this art...

News/Blogging Round-Up

I have missed most memory-related news items over the past week, but here is a small selection: Chile The Legacy of the Pinochet Dictatorshi...

Thursday, 21 January 2010

Blogging Break

Hi, dear readers, Tomorrow I am, I very much hope, escaping the Northern European winter and going on holiday. Blogging will resume in Febru...

Chile: Museum of Memory

Although it still doesn't contain much detail on the actual exhibits, here's the most in-depth English language article I've yet...

Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Argentina: Club Atletico, El Banco, El Olimpo

Blogs here and here (Spanish language) are following the trials of the military perpetrators from the clandestine detention centres Club Atl...

Monday, 18 January 2010

Argentina: Poch to be extradited

Finally, an on-topic post. Julio Alberto Poch, detained in Spain last September (not "last month" as the BBC article has it) is t...

Peru/Haiti: Seeking Answers in a Forgotten Peruvian Quake

The AP, published in the New York Times, looks at contrasting examples of reconstruction after a major natural disaster. Sadly for Peru, Pis...

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