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, 30 October 2011

Uruguay: Congress votes to overturn amnesty law

Uruguay's Congress has voted to lift an amnesty law that protected officers from prosecution for crimes committed during military rule ...

Saturday, 29 October 2011

Peru: Forced sterilisation investigation to be reopened

Peru has informed the Inter-American Human Rights Commission that it will reopen the investigation into cases of forced sterilisation which ...

Brazil: Senate approves truth commission

The proposal for a truth commission, which I discussed here , has passed another hurdle, winning a vote in the Senate, and is now just waiti...

Argentina: JUSTICE for the ESMA victims

Well, it feels like I've been waiting a long time to write this post - but of course, not nearly as long as the Argentine relatives have...

Tuesday, 25 October 2011

Latin America Round-up

Here's some interesting stuff I've been reading over the past few days: Latin America Hey, it's an iconicity piece, so I'm g...

Saturday, 22 October 2011

Argentina: Sentence in ESMA trial

Spain's Stolen Babies

I just watched the episode of BBC2's This World: Spain's Stolen Babies, and it was pretty amazing, especially viewed through the len...

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