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)

Friday, 31 January 2014

Argentina & Brazil agree on archive exchange

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Argentina and Brazil have agreed to exchange information about human rights abuses committed under Operation Condor. A similar agreement alr...

Monday, 20 January 2014

Argentina: Concern over future of Parque de la memoria

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Worrying news from Argentina as question marks hang over the future of the Parque de la memoria (memory park) in Buenos Aires. Staff there...

Sunday, 19 January 2014

Peru: Route of peace and reconciliation

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As we approach the 31st anniversary of the killings of journalists and their guide in Uchuraccay , the victims' families, journalists...

Wednesday, 15 January 2014

RIP Juan Gelman

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I was sorry to hear of the death of renowned Argentine poet, Juan Gelman (3 May 1930 – 14 January 201 4). Gelman had a deeply personal con...

Sunday, 12 January 2014

Argentina: 10 years of activities in ex-ESMA

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The Espacio Memoria y Derechos Humanos (Space for memory and human rights) in the former ESMA clandestine detention centre in Buenos Aires i...

Peru: Drawing our memory

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The Peruvian forensic anthropology institute EPAF and Vicente Cueto have initiated a projected called "Pintemos nuestra memor...

Thursday, 9 January 2014

Peru: The Quipu Project

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The New Internationalist has an article on Peru's Quipu Project, which brings together new technology and an old idea (the Inca mnemonic...

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