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)

Saturday, 27 July 2013

Colombia: Report finds 220,000 dead

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The Colombian Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica (national centre of historic memory) has produced a report called "Basta Ya: Informe...

Peru: Exhumations of prison massacre dead

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Peruvian prosecutors have been overseeing exhumations of victims of the Peruvian prison massacres of 1986 over the past month. AP reports ...

Thursday, 25 July 2013

Argentina: León Ferrari has died

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Argentine artist León Ferrari has died at the age of 92. His polemical works are some of the best-known art to deal with the country'...

Sunday, 21 July 2013

Chile: Military childhoods of presidential candidates

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There are bound to be plenty of comparisons of the similar-yet-different backgrounds of the two presidential candidates in Chile, Michelle B...

Saturday, 20 July 2013

Argentina: Remembering the AMIA in images

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The 19th anniversary of the AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires has just passed, so I thought I'd mark it with an image post. (Credit: Nb...

Argentina: Question marks over new army chief

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Updated post, see below. Argentine president Christina Kirchner named Major-General César Milani as the new head of the army about a month...

Saturday, 13 July 2013

Argentina: Sentences for appropriators

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Earlier this week, I wrote that three people were standing trial for the "appropriation", as it is known, of a baby born during t...

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