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, 21 May 2013

Argentina: Former Ford employees charged

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An Argentine judge has ordered the trial of two former executives and the ex-head of security at Ford in Argentina on charges of illegal dep...

Sunday, 19 May 2013

Argentina: More on aftermath/reactions

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I was struck by a piece in Pagina12 relating that there were only 18 death announcements published in (newspaper of record) La Nacion yester...

Saturday, 18 May 2013

Argentina: Videla is dead

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Jorge Rafael Videla, former dictator and leader of the Argentine junta, has died in jail aged 87. That is a pretty amazin...

Wednesday, 1 May 2013

Argentina: Madres de Plaza de Mayo commemorate 36 years

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Yesterday, 30 April 2013, it was 36 years since the first, small group of women got together in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires to call fo...

Sunday, 28 April 2013

Argentina: Astiz's mother charged with child abduction

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Alfredo Astriz is, of course, one of the most notorious perpetrators of human rights abuses during the Argentine dictatorship and currently ...

Saturday, 27 April 2013

Book review: Ways of Going Home

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Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra, trans. Megan Mcdowell (original Formas de volver a casa) This is the second memory-related novel I...

El Salvador: Monumento a la Memoria y la Verdad

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Thanks to Tim at Tim's El Salvador Blog for linking to this video from the Pro-Historic Memoric Commission in El Salvador, it's wor...

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